Enhancing your Business Execution with Marc Lavallee

74% of strategic plans are never executed, and 72% fail to get executed due to poor leadership. As if that’s not shocking enough, a study by Deloitte says that only 15% of employees know their corporate goals. In this episode, I have Marc Lavallee. Marc is an entrepreneur and a manager. He has spent nearly 25 years contributing to the success of large companies and high-growth start-ups. Analytic and structured, focused on developing and implementing strategic plans, its goal is to create a context for leaders to surpass themselves and for their teams to achieve great goals. Marc and I will have an in-depth conversation on execution in business. Grab a notebook and pen; you might need to take notes. What does great business execution involve? Execution starts by knowing where you want to go and having a goal. This will keep you focused on the right things that you need to contribute, and it will end up helping you align to your strategy. What is Great Leadership People often think that a leader is meant to be served. That is a wrong assumption. A leader is meant to serve the team through guidance, mentorship, and helping them become better people. A leader is to help those under him/her become better versions of themselves. Marc’s Inner Superpower Marc believes his superpower is his ability to identify super entrepreneurs. He has had opportunities to work with businesses that he first felt were such a difficult task, but in no time, he manages to bring out the best in the entrepreneurs, thus helping them shine. Timestamps: [03:10] What is Mark involved with? [01:50] Execution in business [03:08] The three execution pillars [11:35] Benefits of Celery juice [18:34] Mark’s inner superpower [23:24] Advice to people wanting to get out of 9-5 Quotable Quotes: “Define crazy goals that you stretch to the maximum to find a new way to grow.” “It takes a lot of discipline. It takes rigorously every single day to wake up to be on your top game. There’s no laziness, and there’s nothing around it. You go and do what you have to do every single day.” “We have so much power inside us that we just don’t know.” “Leadership is the same thing. If you are on top of your game, then the people will see and follow, and you create momentum, you create the energy around you that makes a big difference.”   Resources Mentioned in the Episode: Good to Great- Jim Collins - https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996 Connect with Marc Lavallee: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-lavall%C3%A9e-05a4b8/  Website: https://1plus1consulting.com/