Welcome to the growth stacking podcast. This is Dan Martell.

Here's three strategies that are not found in my bestselling book, Buy Back Your Time, on how you can get even more leverage. And I talk about calendar outcomes and leadership of your direct reports that most people struggle with. You know, recently I was

doing a coaching call with one of my clients in my elite coaching program, which is for non-software

founders, so people that are not in tech, building HVAC companies and coaching companies and agencies,

and they had read my book. They installed the perfect week. They did the time and energy audit.

They understood audit transfer filled, but they were still running into people problems or how do I connect

my big vision that I talk about in chapter 13, dream bigger, achieve bigger, into the calendar.

And then what about the people? Like, okay, I've bought back my time, but I still feel like

people are coming to me to ask questions for me to give them the

answer. And I want to be able to start working through people because that is usually the

complexity ceiling that stops people because they don't understand to work through people.

So I want to unpack the three things I share with that client that help them see the future,

the vision, get the blueprint for the next level that's not covered in the book.

Let's get into it.

So this is an advanced strategy for leading your direct reports.

Okay, so anybody that's in leadership has people that they manage, they're accountable to,

their performance reviews, their compensation, their training, their coaching.

And as the CEO, most people don't realize

that you should force yourself to only have seven max.

Like I'm talking max.

One time I remember asking one of my mentors,

this guy, Travis, he had built a company

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