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The Home Service Expert Podcast

Motivating Your Employees to Grow Your Business To The Next Level

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mike Dahlke is a serial entrepreneur, business coach, investor, and turnaround specialist. After leaving the financial world in 2011, he jumped into entrepreneurship, and now focuses on both home service companies and business turnaround situations that require strategy and capital. A featured speaker across the United States for different organizations, he built Blue Skies Services from $60,000 of revenue to over $3,000,000 in six seasons. Currently, he owns equity in over 15 businesses in 8 different states, and has completed over 10 acquisitions.

In this episode, we talked about strategic planning, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, business finance...

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0:00.0

Well, I think from our standpoint, the leaders and the CEOs that have done really well,

0:04.1

what has made them, if I could sum it in one word, it's obsession.

0:08.4

They obsess about the business, they obsess about the people, they obsess about giving,

0:12.8

they obsess about getting results, they obsess about productivity, there's an obsession to

0:17.8

it.

0:18.8

And not that they don't go out and have fun or they don't focus on their family, but when

0:21.9

it comes to business, they're obsessive about it.

0:24.8

There is no way that they're going to let somebody say, you can't do this, or there's

0:30.7

no good people out there, you can't make Yelp work.

0:34.3

Well, there's some way to figure it out.

0:36.2

Somebody's doing it. So the number one thing that

0:39.0

we found is that obsession, and we found athletes in general are obsessed with being the best

0:45.5

or winning. And we like that on our teams. We want people to be as obsessed as possible

0:50.7

when they're at work and then go home, do their thing, and then come back and be

0:54.8

obsessed again the next morning.

0:56.0

Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class

1:01.2

entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership,

1:07.0

to find out what's really behind their success in business.

1:15.1

Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.

1:19.8

Welcome back to the Home Service expert.

1:25.2

My name's Tommy Mello, and today I have a guest coming from Nashville, Tennessee.

1:31.6

He is an expert at strategic planning, financial modeling, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, business finance, customer service and relationships.

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