30 episodes
How To Be Moderately Successful. Mike Scott
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5.0 • 18 Ratings
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Building a business is hard. Maintaining healthy relationships with those that you care about is hard. Staying fit and healthy in your body, your mind and your emotions is hard. This podcast is about finding and sharing tools, strategies and experiences that may help you to achieve and maintain moderate success in your life, whatever that means to you. There is a ton of content created by the billionaires, the ultra successful athletes, and by people that are at a level that the vast majority of us will just never get to. And if you're anything like me, you're totally okay with that. This is a place where we talk about how to build a great business, but not necessarily a massive one. A place to talk about how we build a life that is balanced and integrated, but not necessarily optimised to levels that are not realistic for most of us. In short, it's a place where we explore how to be moderately successful. The work will always remain yours, and for the most part, it's simple, but not easy.I sincerely hope it's valuable to you.-MikeIf you want to talk about working with me get in touch on mike@smbmastery.com.au or https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeadamscott/
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EP30 The three hats you wear as a founder
Send us a Text Message.In this conversation, Mike discusses the three different roles that entrepreneurs play in a small and mid-sized business: shareholder/investor, director, and employee. He emphasizes the importance of understanding and separating these roles to avoid overwhelm and maximize productivity. Scott provides a delegation framework, the 70% rule, and introduces the Eisenhower matrix as tools to prioritize tasks and focus on high-value activities. He also encourages entrepr...
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EP29 Who should be on your leadership team?
Send us a Text Message.In this episode, Mike discusses who should be on a leadership team. He emphasises the importance of a strong and disciplined meeting rhythm, including annual planning, quarterly planning, weekly leadership team meetings, and daily huddles. He breaks down the primary functions of a business into operations, sales and marketing, and finance, and explains that the heads of these functions should be part of the leadership team. Mike also advises framing the invitation to jo...
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EP28 Creating and Using a Company Scorecard
Send us a Text Message.In this episode, Mike discusses the importance of creating a company scoreboard or scorecard to increase accountability, improve data quality, and drive results. He emphasises the need for a clear artifact that defines what winning looks like and what needs to be done to achieve it. Mike explains the difference between leading indicators and lagging indicators and focuses on the former for the scorecard. He provides examples of leading indicators such as revenue, profit...
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EP27 How to use your company vision to drive results
Send us a Text Message.In this episode, Mike discusses the importance of having a clear vision for a business and using a structured approach to make it usable. He draws inspiration from Jim Collins' work and emphasizes the need to start with vision before moving on to strategy and planning. Mike explains the three components of a vision: core values, purpose, and a big hairy audacious goal (BHAG). He highlights the significance of authenticity and relevance in defining these components. Mike...
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EP26 Habits that really move the needle
Send us a Text Message.In this episode, Mike shares his personal journey of overcoming anxiety and discusses practical techniques that have helped him improve his mental health and productivity. He emphasizes the importance of sleep and shares his evening routine for better sleep quality. Mike also talks about his morning routine, which includes meditation, breathwork, exercise, and cold plunges. He explains the benefits of journaling and shares breathing techniques that can be used throughou...
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EP25 (Part 2) Getting and keeping the best people.
Send us a Text Message.This episode focuses on creating an environment and experience that makes employees want to stay and brings out the best in them. It covers topics such as differentiating between leadership and management, creating predictable environments, intrinsic motivators, defining winning aspirations and goals, individual and company-wide meetings, and developing a value proposition for talent. The episode emphasizes the importance of intentionality, transparency, and building a ...
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Great podcast. From a very knowledgeable business man. Highly recommend.
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This podcast cuts right through all the chaff of what you’ve been thinking about in your mind and gives you clear direction, shapes your mindset and provides practical strategies to improve your business.
Mike also overlays anything he says with the reality of how challenging it can be to execute properly so if you explore any of his lines of thinking, you know exactly what you’re in for. But you also know the rewards and outcomes are proven because he’s done it.
A regular dose of 15 mins of mental wellbeing
Mike, is a straight-shooter. He is not only well-read and connected in industry, he has also been there and done it. He has built (with friends) a successful business with a great exit. Now he is adapting his life as a leader in an organisation where he part of someone elses system.
Mike battles all of the same things people do as modern leaders and aspiring good human beings. He clearly and concisely articulates his strategies on how he overcomes and faces the stresses and concerns we all do.
If you don’t come away with at least one piece of gold, you need to re-listen!
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