Is Your Business a Forest or a Machine?
What if growing your business starts with growing the people in it? In this episode of The Grounded Man, John continues The Defining Series by asking what changes when you see your business as a forest before you see it as a machine. He shares how he tried to make his coaching calls more efficient before he understood what made them valuable, and why he had to give himself room to try things and get them wrong. John brings that idea back to the conversations you have with your team. When you sit down with someone who carries responsibility in the business, do you know what they want for themselves? He closes with a practical invitation: meet with each member of your leadership team, ask about their personal and professional goals for 2027, and talk about how the business can help them get there. Interested in joining our next Grounded Man Hike? Click here for more: https://www.derunation.com/TGM-Hike 00:01:19 — Defining Business 00:02:22 — The Forest and the Machine 00:05:08 — Value Before Efficiency 00:05:45 — Giving Yourself Permission to Fail 00:08:53 — Culture as the Soil 00:12:03 — Mentoring Your Leadership Team 00:13:29 — What Pay Alone Can’t Buy 00:15:50 — When Leaders Treat Themselves Like Machines 00:16:38 — The Grounding Reflection
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