Future Proofing Your Business with Dorie Clark

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Dorie Clark is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game and executive education faculty at Columbia Business School.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. If too much of your revenues comes only from one source and that suddenly changes or become disruptive , it will be a real problem.

2. Make sure that there are multiple legs on your table so if you lose one leg, it will not be devastating to your business and build safety to your corporate model.

3. It takes courage to make choices that don’t feel valuable today but will be in the future.

How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World. Get a copy of Dorie’s book - The Long Game

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0:00.0	Light that spark fire nation. JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire. The only daily show
0:08.1	interviewing the world's top entrepreneurs seven days a week. Today we'll be breaking down how to
0:12.6	future proof your business. To drop these value bombs I brought to Dori Clark in the EO Fire
0:17.2	Studios, Dory is a Wall Street Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game
0:21.0	and executive education faculty at Columbia Business School. Today we'll talk about how to be
0:25.4	resilient in turbulent markets, auditing revenue streams, scenario planning, strategic
0:31.2	experimentation for career development, and oh, so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring
0:36.3	today's episode goes to Dory and
0:38.1	our sponsors. Do you have the right mentor in your life right now? For the first time of seven years,
0:44.7	I'm opening up a few mentorship slots for individuals who know they need the guidance and
0:48.9	accountability to take their business and life to the next level. Email me at John at Eofire.com with a subject line
0:56.9	mentor and we'll schedule a 15-minute chat to go over the program and see if it's the
1:01.6	right fit for you. Over 41,000 businesses have future-proved their business with
1:07.7	NetSuite by Oracle, the number one cloud ERP, bringing accounting,
1:11.9	financial management, inventory, and HR into one platform.
1:15.4	Download the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine Learning for free at netsuite.com slash fire.
1:23.3	Dory, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful
1:28.7	that most people disagree with. John, thank you. It's so good to be here with Fire Nation.
1:35.0	So something that I believe that most people probably disagree with is I was flabbergasted by this statistic that 80, over the course of their lifetime, about 80%
1:47.9	of women and just under that for men have children. And I think that is amazing for them.
1:55.1	I'm glad for them. But I actually think that we need to be much more selective about who has the right to be parents.
2:03.6	I think that certainly if you are an entrepreneur, it's easier if you have more time, if you're not a parent.
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