Bootstrappers Breakfast East Coast Virtual

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
8:30 AM 10:00 AM 08:30 10:00

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Join us for the November virtual Bootstrappers Breakfast.

We're getting Philly and NYC together for a virtual Bootstrappers Breakfast. How about Baltimore, Atlanta and Tampa to join, too? And Toronto? The East Coast Bootstrappers.

Come join entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast.

At a Bootstrappers Breakfast® we have serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cashflow and organic profit. This group offers a combination of brainstorming, education, peer accountability and support in a group setting to sharpen your business and personal skills.

RSVP to see Rally link. This is a new platform we will be trying that allows for easy networking breakouts and side conversations in person - not just in a chat window. No download required. Safari is not a supported browser.

We request that everyone join with video. You wouldn't have breakfast with someone anonymous.

Leadership

Shiny Object Syndrome Will Break Your Company. It's Also What Built It.

The same restlessness that makes it hard to stay on plan is what made them start the company in the first place. The wandering mind, the refusal to be satisfied with what already exists, the ability to see something before it exists: that's not a disorder. That's the source.

Leadership, Organizational Dev

The Bridge to the Moon

If you're building a company, knowing your role isn't optional. The visionary needs someone who will build what they see without getting in the way of the seeing. The integrator needs someone who will point at the moon and mean it and keep pointing at the same moon long enough for the bridge to get built. The mistake I see most often: trying to be both or hiring someone who mirrors you when you need someone who complements you.

Growth Strategies, Leadership

The Problems You Haven't Earned Yet

The fear of success doesn't usually announce itself as fear. It sounds like planning. It sounds like due diligence. It sounds like being responsible.

What it actually is: A limiting belief. It’s spending today's energy on problems you'll only face if you win

Organizational Dev

Right Person. Promoted to the Wrong Seat.

Right people, right seats doesn't mean everyone eventually moves into a leadership role. It means finding the seat where each person does their best work and building a structure that makes those seats worth staying in. Create a path for people who want to grow as individual contributors. Create a separate path for people who want to lead. Reward both. Respect both. Pay both.

Scraped Knees and Bus Crashes

Don't prevent scraped knees; prevent bus crashes. A scraped knee hurts. You might carry the scar for years. That's the point. The pain is proportional to the lesson. A bus crash can lead to catastrophic loss. The project. The company. The relationship. Something that can't be recovered. The leader's job isn't to eliminate mistakes. It's to know the difference between those two things.

Organizational Dev, Leadership

What Leadership Teams Learn When the Helicopter Goes Down

The leader's job isn't to have the answer. It's to create conditions where the best answer can emerge. That means encouraging disagreement without punishment. Creating opportunities for information to move across functions. Making it safe for people to challenge assumptions, including your own. The highest-performing teams in these simulations don't succeed because they have the smartest leader. They succeed because nobody in the room is waiting for one person to have all the answers.

Managing Up and Across Starts Before You Need Anything

The leaders who are consistently good at managing up and across understand something most people miss: influence gets built long before it’s needed. Not through charisma. Not through politics. Through small, deliberate actions repeated consistently over time. Investments. Relationships are like a bank account. You have to make deposits before you can make withdrawals. Most people get this backwards.

Leadership, Communications

Power Stops Working. Influence Doesn’t.

The leaders who build something lasting lead differently. They retain great people, create cultures that outlast them, and build organizations that can function without them. They share power. They create it in others. When a team operates out of fear of authority, they do the minimum required to avoid consequences.

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