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West Valley News Volume 7 Number 2 2011
The Growth Coach
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Becoming a Strategic Business Owner By Jonathan Goldhill and Daniel M. Murphy Jonathan Goldhill, The Growth Coach, coaches leaders of private companies to grow their business. To learn more about his unique group and individual coaching programs visit www.TheGrowthCoachLA.com. Jonathan can be reached at (818) 716-8826 or Jon@TheGrowthCoachLA.com. Daniel M. Murphy is CEO & Founder of The Growth Coach Franchise System, www.TheGrowthCoach.com.
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Editor’s note: Beginning with the January issue of the West Valley News, we will publish, in monthly installments, the content of a book by Daniel M. Murphy, CEO & Founder of The Growth Coach. The title of the book is “Becoming a Strategic Business Owner. A Proven Process to Enhance Your Strategic Mindset.”
The Topanga Boosters is a volunteer support organization made up of business and community leaders. Its primary mission is to increase the effectiveness and morale of the officers and staff of the Topanga Police Station by raising money for community services, materials, and equipment not generally supplied by the City of Los Angeles.
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• The first and best victory is to conquer self. Plato
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CHARLES “SEAN” DINSE On February 23, 2011, at the Topanga Area 2nd Annual Employees of the Year Luncheon, Senior Lead Officer Charles Sean Dinse was recognized as the Employee of the Year for 2010. Also recognized were Reserve Officer Clarence Bill Speer, Officer Cesar Larios, CI Analyst Camille Howard, Detective II Pam Pitcher, and Lieutenant I Nicole Alberca. Congratulations to all!
• We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. Eric Hoffer
Entrepreneurial Reflection Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. For many of you, in as little as two to three years (and regardless of the level of financial success achieved), your entrepreneurial dream of freedom, independence and wealth has started to warp into a partial nightmare. Your wish to be master of your destiny has degenerated into your being a slave to your business, your employees and your customers. The fire in your belly has been replaced by a growing uneasiness in your gut. Habitually, you are still working too many hours, wearing too many hats, and handling too many things. Sadly, the entrepreneurial lows have become deeper, last longer and are more frequent. As your business has grown, your fun and fulfillment have not. In fact, most of you suffer from the generalized feelings of anxiety, mental fatigue, and of being trapped in the business. For sake of simplicity, I have termed these feelings, the business owner blues. For years, you have deluded yourself. You kept telling yourself that one day you would get caught up, slow down, and have more free time to do other things. That the blues would eventually fade. In reality, the sixty to seventy hour workweeks continue. The stress continues. You can’t even escape the business for a few relaxing, no-work days. You still scramble like a hyperactive squirrel preparing for a harsh winter. Furthermore, you are coming to realize that being a workaholic, micro-manager, control freak, dictator or hands-on technician does not work and is a miserable way to run a business, much less lead a life. Working harder, acting tougher, or being more involved with daily details is not the path to greater freedom, joy, or peaceofmind.
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Rather, it is a guaranteed path to burn out. How did you get to this point? Odds are, you were a gifted technician (programmer, electrician, painter, landscaper, CPA, mechanic, chef, attorney, carpenter, salesperson, etc.) who caught the “entrepreneurial bug” several years ago and started, acquired or inherited a business – one that probably mirrors your technical skills and experience. Now, as you try frantically to maintain control of your growing company, you are likely overworked, overwhelmed and suffering from a full-blown case of the business owner blues. You are tired. You feel like a slave to your business. As it grows, you work harder and become deeper enslaved. The work, the problems, and the company revolve around you. If you are honest, business ownership is probably quite different from what you expected and from what you have been prepared to handle. If not held in check, the very strengths that made you a successful technician (detail orientation, hands-on doer, technical expertise, day-to-day focus, etc.) can be real liabilities to you as a business owner. Technical expertise alone is never sufficient to build and manage a healthy and profitable business. You must provide the vision and leadership of a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the order and systems of a Manager. You must get strategic to get free! You must learn to focus on the entire business, not merely the technical work of the business. You must elevate your mindset, focus and actions –focusing on the vital few things that really matter and make a difference. For example, being a good plumber contrasted with creating and operating a successful plumbing business are two different worlds and sets of challenges. Each role requires very different mindsets and skillsets. To be effective, the latter requires strategic leadership; the former requires technical “doer-ship”. Just because you know how to do the daily technical work of plumbing doesn’t qualify you to design, build and manage a business that does the work of plumbing. This is a fatal assumption most would-be entrepreneurs make. If you are a technician masquerading as an owner, be warned! Your pipes may burst. You have the wrong perspective and are doing the wrong type of work. Because you are comfortable with and good at doing the technical work (for example, plumbing), by default and out of habit, as your company grows, you will end up doing more and more plumbing work. You will find it hard to escape the frantic pace. Soon, the business will have you and your life held hostage. You will forever be trapped under the sink or hovering over a broken toilet. Why? Because your business is broken too! You are not thinking and functioning as a strategic business owner; you are toiling and sweating like a plumber. See Strategic Business Owners on Page 11
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Jon’s Fitness Background and Credentials Nike Award Winner for Creativity in Personal Training / Awarded “Master Trainer” Status by the National Gym Association / Reebok Spin Certified Instructor / USA Fit Marathon Trainer / Russian Commando (Spetnetz) Fitness Techniques / Golden Gloves Boxer and Coach / Jiu-Jitsu Brown Belt (Japanese style) / Weight Management and Nutritional Expertise / Post Natal and Pregnancy Trained / American Red Cross Certified / Cancer Survivor Rehabilitation Techniques Certification / Flexibility & Range of Motion Studies Certification (Esquerre).
Jon Geiger is an Athletic Conditioning Specialist with over 20 years of experience guiding athletes, performers and many others to achievements in performance, rehabilitation and the growth of will and self-belief while manifesting change. He is the founder of Geiger’s No Limits Training and The Academy at Geiger’s No Limits (A Training Academy devoted to Sport-Specific Conditioning for the Young Athlete).
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