Episode 211 – Mike Michalowicz – Need An Idea, It’s Sauna Time…

How to Build Unstoppable Teams with Mike Michalowicz We all have individual goals, and it’s mandatory that we, as leaders of organisations, understand the individual goals of our team. Whatever your employee’s dreams are, once you understand them, you can move to attention alignment to match their dreams with your organisation’s goals, so everyone achieves their vision. Knowing what people want and matching it arm-to-arm with your business intentions is a powerful and unstoppable force. When people are served holistically, beyond conversation and salary, they naturally become interested in supporting the company’s mission. That is the natural law of reciprocity and alignment. In this episode, Mike Michalowicz will teach you how as a leader, you can successfully build an unstoppable team in the current economic environment.  Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a business makeover specialist on MSNBC. By his 35th birthday, Mike had founded and sold two multi-million-dollar companies. He was confident that he had the formula to success, became a small business angel investor and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Mike started all over again. Driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies, he has devoted his life to researching and delivering innovative, impactful entrepreneurial strategies. In 2020 Mike released Fix This Next, in which he details the strategy businesses can use to determine what to do and in what order, to ensure healthy, fast, permanent growth and avoid debilitating distractions.  Mike is the author of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies around the globe to drive profit, Clockwork, which is a powerful method to make any business run on automatic, Fix This Next, Get Different, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Fabled author, Simon Sinek deemed Mike Michalowicz “…the top contender for the patron saint of entrepreneurs.” This is an episode that you cannot afford to miss!   Let’s jump in! Key Highlights from the Episode; [00:00] Episode intro and why this episode is very special  [01:03] A sneak peek of Mike Michalowicz’s background story  [04:55] What Mike’s like to drink on a typical working day and his favourite coffee   [06:40] The most significant thing that Mike has been working on in his business [08:45] Mike’s strategy ‘Yourself and Others’ that he uses to enhance his books [10:40] The book Mike is working on and where it fits in the hierarchy of needs  [12:25] How the evolution of business architecture has influenced Mike’s new book  [14:43] The pull and drag approach, how to iterate and make people run with you naturally  [16:48] One activity that helps Mike disconnect and give himself space to create his content [21:35] What inspired Mike to revise and expand his book, Clockwork [25:58] How to seek out what is in the best interest of your team [27:20] How to find out more about Mike, his books, and his upcoming book     [28:14] Golden key takeaway from the guest that you can implement today [31:12] The location and book Mike would be reading if he was to have his favourite coffee at the beginning of the day   [31:54] Ending the show and call to action Notable Quotes