Episode 032: Behind the Scenes with Dermot Buffini
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
“Everybody already has what they need, but sometimes we lose sight of it.”
— Dermot Buffini
While people may be familiar with Brian Buffini, in this episode we get to know Dermot Buffini, the CEO of Buffini & Company. Before Dermot joined the company, he held sales positions and owned his own company. Although he started at the bottom of Buffini & Company, over the years he’s risen through the ranks and had led it for the past few years. Brian Buffini recently sat down with Dermot to learn what makes Buffini & Company continue to grow year after year. As the leader of a company that serves several thousand clients in 37 countries, Dermot is uniquely positioned to talk on leadership and the role relationships have played in both is personal success and the success of Buffini & Company. They also discuss Take Over Tuesday, where each month Dermot takes over The Brian Buffini Show to interview a successful business leader and share their story and strategies for success. Get ready to learn and laugh!
Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“It’s all about building the relationship and building trust.” — Dermot Buffini
“We have more people who are small business owners who want to know how to implement the system.” — Dermot Buffini
“People need clarity. We’re getting hijacked on our way to our destination all the time.” — Dermot Buffini
“Everybody already has what they need, but sometimes we lose sight of it.” — Dermot Buffini
“I learn through other people’s experiences.” — Dermot Buffini
“Transactional relationships burn people out.” — Dermot Buffini
“The relationships you make within the organizations shape what you do best.” — Dermot Buffini
“Give to give, don’t give to get.” — Dermot Buffini
Mentioned in this episode:
Jack Welch-Jack: Straight from the Gut
Rick Warren-The Purpose Driven Life: What are Earth Am I Here For
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| 0:46.8 | Welcome to the Brian Bafini show where we explore the mindsets, motivation and methodologies of success. |
| 0:53.4 | Here's your host Brian Bafini. |
| 1:04.9 | Well the top of the morning to you and thanks for joining me on the Brian Bafini show. |
| 1:09.3 | Today I have something unusual for you. We are going to be launching an additional episode |
| 1:15.2 | of month called TakeOver Tuesday and it's not quite a hostile takeover. It's not exactly a friendly |
| 1:22.6 | takeover either. It just feels like a hostile takeover and what we're going to be doing is my brother |
| 1:28.6 | Dermott who is the CEO of Bafini and Company. By the way for you Americans that's D-E-R-M-O-T. |
| 1:36.0 | I said Dermott not Dermott or Caramott my mother and father named him after a bishop. Bishop Dermott |
| 1:42.8 | of Dublin. But Dermott is the backbone of Bafini and Company which has become the largest business |
| 1:50.1 | coach in and training company in North America. And Dermott has a couple of things going for him. |
| 1:55.6 | He has one of the most interesting and broad role addexes of business relationships, |
| 2:03.1 | business leaders and influencers that you ever want to meet. And Dermott has a high level of |
| 2:10.2 | curiosity. His middle name is George. We used to call him Curious George. And Dermott in his |
| 2:16.0 | own right has done for Bafini Company many interviews. And recently we made a couple of these |
| 2:22.0 | available through different formats and people just loved him and said man we'd love to hear him |
| 2:26.2 | on the podcast once in a while. So we're going to do that. We're going to do takeover Tuesdays |
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