Podcast 445: Lee Caraher: Building Double-Forte From Her Garage

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

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🗓️ 30 October 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots free podcast interview is a woman who loves nothing more than ensuring high performing teams in organisations across the world. She believes that all teams should be well oiled engines, lubricated by honest and meaningful communication between its members. This is the mission of her San Francisco based company Double Forte, which over the last few years has positioned itself as one of the key companies to turn to in the event of a company needing to find ways to up its game. What is interesting with this lady is although she has created this company, and so is in effect an employee, at her core she is quite obviously an entrepreneur with hustle muscle running through her big time. Starting her working life back in 1988 as the Account Executive to the Account Supervisor for The Weber Group, she moved through quite a few positions quickly, as her ambitions forced her to find her true calling. And it seems now that she has found it, and with her acclaimed book "Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work", where she shares what's she's learned from leading big, medium and small teams and companies over the last 20 years selling well, her history seems to be connecting nicely. Or said in another way it appears that she is well and truly joining up her dots. So when she joined the work force back in 1988, did she have a plan to lead her to where she is today, or has it occurred organically over the years? And are there common themes that she finds time and time again with non-producing teams? Well lets find out as we start joining up dots with the lady that says "I'm a straight talker who doesn't hold too many punches, although I try to be pleasant about it." the one and only Lee Caraher

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.0	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features
0:10.3	amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:16.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:18.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Rall.
0:22.8	Yes, hello there everybody and welcome to another episode of Join up dots.
0:32.2	Join up dots 445, it seems like a special one for some reason and I suppose it is because once you get to a certain point the momentum seems to gain incrementally every time you do a show you seem to sort of move
0:44.8	forward a bit and it's interesting actually because my guest today actually on
0:49.3	her Skype says she's busy changing things one step at a time and it's fascinating what
0:54.9	people put on Skype because it really sort of emphasizes their kind of essence
0:59.0	somehow and I tell you what I don't normally say this right up front but I like this lady we've had a
1:03.7	little bit of a flirty conversation before we've even started so who knows
1:08.2	where it's going to go but she is a lady who loves nothing more than ensuring high-performing teams in organizations
1:15.1	across the world.
1:16.1	She believes that all teams should be well-oiled engines, lubricated by honest and meaningful
1:21.1	communication between its members.
1:23.5	Now this is the mission of her San Francisco-based company,
1:26.3	Double Forte, which over the last few years has positioned itself as one of the key companies
1:30.9	to turn to in the event of a company needing to find ways to
1:34.8	up its game. Now what is interesting with this lady is although she's created this
1:38.9	company and so is in effect an employee at her core she's quite obviously an entrepreneur with
1:44.0	hustle muscle running through her big time. Starting her work in life back in
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