David Mattson, President and CEO of the Sandler Organization and author of The Road to Excellence: 6 Leadership Strategies to Build a Bulletproof Business
Bill Ringle and Dave Mattson discuss some of the crucial blind spots to building a successful business, as well as the 6 phases of the Excellence Process: Planning, Positions, People, Processes, Performetrics, Passion.
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Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways from this Interview
Growth is continuous, so training to succeed should also be continuousYou have to become comfortable talking about money to reach higher levels of success as a small business ownerSurprising how many companies fail to take advantage of creating an onboarding playbook for success and the many forms it can takeHow a sales manager can successfully link an employee’s personal and corporate goalsThe 6 P’s in the Excellence Process
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
2:14 How his grandfather inspired Dave to have a strong work ethic.3:55 “I came from a family of non-sales people.”5:26 The importance of putting your own personality into sales.5:39 How Dave started working with David Sandler.7:09 Characteristics of entrepreneurs who need outside help8:04 Why it’s essential for a team of sales people to use the same sales language.9:54 How to recognize when you have a blind spot and what to do about it.10:30 “Being an entrepreneur, it’s a lonely business.”11:10 “People will work harder for themselves than they will for you.”12:06 “In order to link the corporate goal to the personal goal, you should sit down and have a conversation that would look something like this.”14:09 “Do you know the top 2 or 3 goals for the people who work for you? If not, you have a blind spot.”15:21 “If you’re working on the business it’s really tough to work on the business.”15:45 How having best practices allows your employees to mimic success.17:06 “If someone’s stepping into that role, i want them to produce at the same level as the person who’s leaving that role.”17:17 The 6 “P’s” in the excellence process.18:19 “Where I want to then affect where the company will be.