USR 194: Brad Szollose on Managing Winning Teams (Of Millennials!)
The Kelly Roach Show
Kelly Roach
4.9 • 965 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Brad Szollese is a TEDX speaker and web pioneer - helping businesses to dominate their industry by tapping into the treasure of a cross-generational workforce. His international bestselling book, Liquid Leadership, shares his journey creating a business from an "idea in a coffee" shop to becoming a publicly traded company worth $26 million in 24 short months.
Brad co-founded K2 Design, the very first Dot Com Agency to go public on NASDAQ. From his website and bio, K2 Design experienced 425% hyper-growth for 5 straight years, expanded from 2 business partners to 4 with 60+ employees and offices worldwide.
Today, Brad's workshops and keynotes are transforming a new generation of business leaders in everything from maximizing cross-generational corporate culture, sales growth in the age of information, and so much more.
In this episode, Brad talks about:
- How shifting from a hierarchy to a results & deadline-driven management model caused K2 Design to grow by 425% for 5 straight years - and how you can replicate those results
- What heart-based leadership REALLY means and why you may want to consider it in your growth plan this year
- Top 5 things you need to do if you want to learn to manage millennials and get the BEST out of them to grow your business
Brad's serving up very real perspective and strategies on what it means to hire and work with a winning team of millennials and how to tailor your leadership to make sure you're not wasting time and money on what he calls the "ninnies!"
Mentioned in this episode:
TEDx Talk: The Age of Radical Disruption: https://youtu.be/99Q3aP8q8Xw
Valve Software's handbook: www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf
Brad's book: https://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Success-Millennials-Astounding-Principles/dp/0997680156
Connect with Brad:
Liquidleadership.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Unstoppable Success Radio, episode 194. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Kelly Roach and you are listening to Unstoppable Success Radio, |
| 0:09.0 | the podcast for achievers, believers, dreamers, and doers who want to build a profitable, sustainable |
| 0:16.0 | business around a life of purpose, fulfillment, freedom, and family. |
| 0:21.6 | Now let's get down to business. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to Unstoppable Success Radio. |
| 0:29.0 | I am your host Kelly Roach and I am thrilled to be back here today with Brad Zollis. |
| 0:33.7 | Brad welcome to the show. |
| 0:35.6 | Kelly, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:37.8 | Super pumped to have you here so I'm going to share a little bit about you with our |
| 0:41.2 | listeners and then you can fill in any gaps before we get |
| 0:43.4 | started. Sure. TEDx speaker and web pioneer Brad Salas helps businesses and |
| 0:49.6 | organizations to dominate their industry by tapping into the treasure of a cross-generational |
| 0:55.6 | workforce. His international best-selling book, Liquid Leadership, he shares his journey |
| 1:01.1 | from starting a business as an idea in a coffee shop to becoming a publicly traded |
| 1:05.9 | company worth $26 million in just 24 short months. |
| 1:11.3 | K2 Design Inc became the first dot-com agency to go public on the NASDAQ. |
| 1:16.2 | Today, Brad's workshops and keynotes have transformed a new generation of business leaders, |
| 1:21.0 | helping them to maximize their cross-generational corporate |
| 1:24.6 | culture, management expectations, productivity, and sales growth in the age of |
| 1:29.8 | information. Brad, welcome to the show. Thank you. |
| 1:33.0 | Wow, it's a long bio. |
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