Extraordinary Business Lessons In Three Simple Rules

Inside Strategic Coach: Connecting Entrepreneurs With What Really Matters

How do you stand firm in a world that seems to be in flux? It’s easier than you might think. In this episode, business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explain the three rules for staying cool and calm so you can achieve business success and business growth no matter what’s happening in the world.

Here's some of what you'll learn in this episode:

• Why entrepreneurs don’t need to ask permission to create.
• The importance of company ground rules.
• Why it’s helpful for entrepreneurs to recognize that life isn’t fair.
• Why some people need to be controlled by other people’s laws
• The real definition of creativity.
• The five “credibility rules.”

Show Notes:

If you want somebody to be in charge, you have to be the one in charge.

If we aren’t enforcing the rules, the rules don’t matter.

All the knowledge that we have was made up by someone.

After you make something up, you have to communicate it in such a way that other people will find it useful.

Entrepreneurs are the masters of making up new things.

Political leaders aren’t in charge; they’re fulfilling a role according to a set of rules.

Your new ideas will advantage some people and disadvantage others.

There used to be so much scarcity in the world that you couldn’t think about things like fairness and equality.

Freedom is maximizing being inside of restrictions.

Nothing you come up with has any value until somebody is willing to write you a check for it.

Economic breakdown usually comes from government mismanagement.

Rules allow you to have your attention on the main thing rather than on the small things.

Resources:

“Geometry” For Staying Cool & Calm by Dan Sullivan

The Impact Filter™