How to Grow as a Leader so You Evolve Your Team – In Just 7 Minutes with Gene Hammett

 Learn the hypergrowth strategies from INC 5000 CEOs Discover actionable strategies to create more impact and leverage influence Discover practical insights that will elevate your leadership abilities at a personal level Resources/Links: Do you want the core principles from Inc 500 founders that drive their growth? Get one worksheet with 12 principles of fast-growth: http://genehammett.com/worksheet Summary Gene Hammett is a leading expert on high-growth company culture and leadership. He has interviewed more than 400 CEOs of high-growth companies to understand the core principles of fast growth. Gene consults companies to activate new growth and reduce the high cost of ineffective leadership. In this episode, Gene shares the most important aspects of company growth and how he helps companies grow and evolve as leaders. Check out these episode highlights: 01:13 – Gene's ideal client: it's the founders and CEOs of fast-growing companies 01:18 – Problem he helps solve: Leaders seem to focus on the strategies of growth and not necessarily the people. 02:48 – Typical symptoms people experience with that problem? We hear all the time people are overwhelmed. They get so many opportunities in front of them that they don't really know how to focus on what's next. 03:48 – Common mistakes people make when trying to solve that problem: I think a lot of people think more work, more hustle, more grit, is what's necessary to power through most of the problems that are happening in the business when the reality is some of the time, which is really most of the time, we've got to just slow down and take perspective over what's really going on. 04:48 – Gene's Valuable Free Action(VFA): If you sat down in a blank sheet of paper just kind of scribbled out all the hats you're wearing and all those projects that are on your kind of menu, if you actually start assigning different people that have even better skills in certain areas, if you can't do that you really get some problems inside the team aspect of that. And that's really, another issue that we have to get into. 05:39 – Gene's Valuable Free Resource(VFR): http://genehammett.com/worksheet 07:10 – Q:'What makes me credible to talk about fast growth?A: I ran a fast-growth company. I started a company from just an idea to put 5 Million in two years. I took that to about 15 employees and I really struggled as a leader to evolve once I got complacent. And I think that my experience working in fast growth, hands-on in the trenches. But also working with over 400 leaders, makes me very credible to help people see what they can't see themselves. Help them to slow down the speed up and help them really create more of practical workshop. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “We've got to just slow down and take perspective over what's really going on. And that's one of the things I helped my clients do is help them slow down so they can speed up,by getting perspective over those problems.” -@genehammettClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland:[00:00:09] Hello everyone. A very warm welcome to another edition of Marketing The Invisible. My name is Tom Poland, joined today by Gene Hammett. Gene, good day, a very warm welcome and where are you hanging out? Gene Hammett: [00:00:20] Atlanta, Georgia. Tom Poland: [00:00:21] Atlanta, Georgia,