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"Necessary Endings" is a self-help book written by Dr. Henry Cloud. It explores the concept of embracing and initiating endings in various aspects of life, such as relationships, careers, and personal growth, in order to create a positive and fulfilling future.

The book emphasises that endings are a natural part of life and are necessary for personal and professional growth. 

While endings are a natural part of business and life, we often experience them with a sense of hesitation, sadness, resignation, or regret. But Dr. Henry Cloud sees endings differently. He argues that our personal and professional lives can only improve to the degree that we can see endings as a necessary and strategic step to something better. If we cannot see endings in a positive light and execute them well, he asserts, the "better" will never come either in business growth or our personal lives.

In this insightful and deeply empathetic book, Dr. Cloud demonstrates that, when executed well, "necessary endings" allow us to proactively correct the bad and the broken in our lives in order to make room for the professional and personal growth we seek. However, when endings are avoided or handled poorly—as is too often the case—good opportunities may be lost, and misery repeated. Drawing on years of experience as an executive coach and a psychologist, Dr. Cloud offers a mixture of advice and case studies to help readers

• Know when to have realistic hope and when to execute a necessary ending in a business, or with an individual.
• Identify which employees, projects, activities, and relationships are worth nurturing and which are not.
• Overcome people's resistance to change and create change that works.
• Create urgency and an action plan for what's important.
• Stop wasting resources needed for the things that really matter.
• Knowing when and how to let go when something, or someone, isn't working—a personal relationship, a job, or a business venture—is essential for happiness and success. 

In this, the final episode of the Growth Whisperers podcast, we talk about the book necessary endings, our journey together, and why you should consider what endings are necessary in your life. 

Thank you for listening, it's been an honour to help you. From Kevin and Brad.

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#90 Meeting Rhythm - The Annual Strategic Thinking meeting

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#89 The 4 different types of A players

There is an entire industry and philosophy surrounding why you should sell your business, but it doesn’t need to be that way. 
There are many reasons why people choose to sell their businesses and really the reasons can be broken down into two different things. 

1. Long Term Goal To Exit: A strategic decision because their plan all along was to sell their business and they have something else more desirable to do with their time (besides golf).

2. Looking for an Exit strategy after losing faith.  They hit a point of frustration or desperation and are no longer either enjoying the business or don’t believe they can get it to the next level. 

The first point is a goal to exit, the second allows you to think it isn't going to get any easier, it might be better to sell. And there are a lot of people who will want you to sell. This means you can feel forced to exit.

In this episode we discuss the top 5 reasons people regret selling, and how you can consider different perspectives and opportunities. 

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

#84 The 7 common strategy mistakes from Michael Porter

#130 Jim Collins: Level 5 leaders

#104 The habits successful leaders use to prepare each week

#50 Jim Collins Flywheel Concept: How to build unstoppable momentum in your company

#96 The three main barriers to consistent growth

#90 Meeting Rhythm - The Annual Strategic Thinking meeting

#110 Five most common questions we get about Scaling Up

#89 The 4 different types of A players

Hiring can be expensive. 

It's expensive in terms of time for leaders to commit to an effective hiring process, it's expensive in terms of recruitment fees or costs, and it's expensive in terms of productivity. And that's when you get it right!

Sometimes we can make mistakes when hiring, and this can be even more expensive. Perhaps busy executives are skipping steps or they might not know what things to avoid.

This week we talk about five expensive hiring mistakes you should avoid. 

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*Like LinkedIn? Follow https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleygiles/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachkevinlawrence/ 

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

#84 The 7 common strategy mistakes from Michael Porter

#130 Jim Collins: Level 5 leaders

#104 The habits successful leaders use to prepare each week

#50 Jim Collins Flywheel Concept: How to build unstoppable momentum in your company

#96 The three main barriers to consistent growth

#90 Meeting Rhythm - The Annual Strategic Thinking meeting

#110 Five most common questions we get about Scaling Up

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Why CEOs and leaders need to perform an Ambassador role

One of the most important things leaders must do in order to build a high performing culture is to activate the pride within their employees. Pride for their team, their product, their manager and pride for their company. Within this, a key to activating pride is the leader's Ambassador role. For if the head of a company doesn't have a face, it is a faceless corporation. And faceless corporations are very difficult to trust. 

This week we discuss the five parts of the leader's Ambassador role and why CEOs and leaders need to understand and perform the role of an Ambassador in their business.

Do you have a stop list? 

It's human nature to try and solve a problem by starting something new. But it's not intuitive to ask what should we stop doing to solve this problem?

This week we talk about the stop list from Jim Collins and how you should consider stopping doing something in order to free up resources or clear blockages in your business. 

Also we talk about building a stop list rhythm, where each month, each quarter or each year you and your team consider all the things you should stop doing. 

Why you need a Quarterly reset

This week we talk about a simple tool that you can use to reset each quarter on three areas of work, self and life. 

This worksheet helps you to unpack all of the stuff that's happening to be able to rank the most important priorities within your work, then your self and then your life. 

The will help you to reflect on what has and hasn't worked, and then to help you figure out how much energy to allocate to each of the three areas for the next quarter.

Download the quarterly reset worksheet here 

Are you planning to sell or planning to keep your business? Or are you stuck in the mediocre middle? (Part 2 of 2)

This week on the Growth Whisperers, we're talking about your plan for your business?

What's your plan?

Are you planning to keep, or are you planning to sell?

Or, if you don't have a plan to keep or sell, are you stuck in what we call the mediocre middle?

That is, you're not planning to sell, and you're not planning to
keep, and you're suffering the consequences of inaction in the middle.

And it's not consciously that you're doing it.

You're busy running your business.

And that takes a lot of time.

But sometimes we don't even realize we need to decide what we're driving to actually and being committed to selling in three years, for example, or keeping it for 30.

And we ended up floating around.

And we really challenge you to make a decision. Sell and make the decision, march in that direction. Or plan on having it for 20, 30, 40 years, and probably make many different decisions versus just floating around.

This week in part 2 of 2 we discuss how to escape the mediocre middle and provide the tools to help you understand where you and on the time horizon and what you must do to your business in order to endure.

Are you planning to sell or planning to keep your business? Or are you stuck in the mediocre middle? (Part 1 of 2)

This week on the Growth Whisperers, we're talking about your plan for your business?

What's your plan?

Are you planning to keep, or are you planning to sell?

Or, if you don't have a plan to keep or sell, are you stuck in what we call the mediocre middle?

That is, you're not planning to sell, and you're not planning to
keep, and you're suffering the consequences of inaction in the middle.

And it's not consciously that you're doing it.

You're busy running your business.

And that takes a lot of time.

But sometimes we don't even realize we need to decide what we're driving to actually and being committed to selling in three years, for example, or keeping it for 30.

And we ended up floating around.

And we really challenge you to make a decision. Sell and make the decision, march in that direction. Or plan on having it for 20, 30, 40 years, and probably make many different decisions versus just floating around.

This week in part 1 of 2 we discuss what it means to be stuck in the mediocre middle and the cost that you pay for not having a plan either way.

How do you integrate cultures when companies merge or a company is acquired?

Many leaders will focus on the finances and processes when acquiring a company and don't often consider the culture. Yet the culture can actually create major problems and can even destroy a good merger. When two companies come together who each might previously have had good cultures, the result can be a toxic culture where the A players leave.

And ironically one of the reasons people buy a company is the top talent.

So when acquiring a company, having a plan for the cultures to merge is one of the most important things you must do.

This week on The Growth Whisperers we answer the question How do you integrate cultures when companies merge? Then we review the 7 most important things to consider when merging two company cultures.

Why finding the best advisors will help you quadruple your IQ

Finding a competent advisor is easy, but if you want the best to really make a difference in any area, it is important to ask the question, who is the person that has been in your situation 14 times before. That's what we call a 14X advisor.

We also discuss the Billionaire mindset and consider if a Billionaire with no limits on money was in your situation, what adviser would they choose and why. Finally, we talk about the importance of getting the right fit with an adviser so you can become clearer, stronger and more inspired.