From Operator to Leader: Lessons from Scaling a Business | Ep 170
Build with Leila Hormozi
Leila Hormozi
5 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
"If you're the owner of the company, or if you are the leader of the department, you're the one that's supposed to grow it." In this episode, Leila shares practical advice on how you can grow as a leader in order to facilitate growth and scale for your company.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? So I am recording this while I am getting ready for the day, and I just had |
| 0:10.7 | a couple of things that were top of mind that I felt like might actually be worth sharing |
| 0:16.2 | with other people who are listening to the podcast, who are growing their businesses, you know, |
| 0:21.8 | whether you're hiring people for the first time or you're hiring a lot of people for the first |
| 0:26.2 | time or you're continuing to hire people and build out your leadership team, I thought |
| 0:30.6 | some of this might be helpful for you. So, you know, for me, really a lot of this has been |
| 0:36.8 | in Growing Acquisition.com, a reflective period because, you know, for me, really a lot of this has been in Growing Acquisition.com a reflective |
| 0:39.2 | period because, you know, my first business that I grew was Jim Watch. And when I grew that |
| 0:44.4 | company, I had no idea what to expect. I hadn't managed people before. I hadn't had even |
| 0:50.4 | one single direct report before. And so to go from having nothing to suddenly managing |
| 0:56.8 | all these people and having a company of 120 people by the age of 23 was difficult to say the least. |
| 1:05.2 | And I a lot of the time thought that I was doing things wrong because I just didn't know if I was doing |
| 1:09.7 | things right. It wasn't that I was actually doing things wrong. It was just like, I didn't know what way was up, |
| 1:14.7 | right? And in hindsight, I actually did a lot of stuff right. I've just seen time and time again that |
| 1:19.6 | if I put my focus on my people and I put my focus on my people's skills, my business grows by |
| 1:25.7 | consequence. And so it's not an immediate thing, |
| 1:28.7 | because obviously if I tweak a sales script, if I make new ads, if I write copy, my business |
| 1:34.1 | will immediately grow. So there's definitely a lot more reward in that kind of stuff. And contrary |
| 1:38.9 | to what people might think, I actually like that stuff. You know, I know how to write ads. I know |
| 1:42.4 | how to tweak a sales script. I know how to do |
| 1:44.4 | all those things. But I've just seen that long term, this is the stuff that really grows a business |
| 1:50.7 | in a way that I do not have to feel like I'm the bottleneck of the business. And recently, |
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