Entrepreneurs always want to be moving forward. But sometimes it’s like their feet are stuck to the ground because something is holding them back. In this episode, business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explain how you can always use friction, the very thing that seems to hold you back, to achieve the next step of your business growth.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• Several types of friction commonly encountered by entrepreneurs.
• The Four Freedoms that all entrepreneurs are striving for.
• The difference between obstacles and friction.
• Why you need other people in order to deal with friction.
• How control issues can get in an entrepreneur’s way.
• The real role of an entrepreneur at their company.

Show Notes:

All entrepreneurs have an overriding purpose.

Having friction that you can’t solve is very frustrating.

Obstacles don’t have the emotional hit that friction does.

You can define friction as anything that stops or slows down progress.

The reason entrepreneurs do anything is for freedom.

Friction is not something you can work around.

When you’re experiencing friction, you don’t have full use of your capabilities.

Anytime you venture into new territory, there’s immediately friction.

To transform friction, you have to identify it, then face it squarely.

Transforming friction is energizing for entrepreneurs.

Greater freedom only comes if you have teamwork.

Most entrepreneurs have to start as lone individuals.

Other people pausing and being indecisive causes friction for entrepreneurs.

It's the job of the entrepreneur to give a vision to their company, but it's the job of their skilled people to actually turn the vision into reality.

Entrepreneurs create value by transforming friction for other people.

Boredom means that you’re not looking at the next big friction that you have to transform.

At the heart of boredom is the terror of taking the next big step.

Resources:

Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan

Article: “The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs”

Unique Ability®

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Shannon Waller’s Team Success Podcast

EOS®, the Entrepreneurial Operating System®, was developed by a Strategic Coach® member who envisioned an extension of the Coach Program. Now, EOS and Strategic Coach are on parallel tracks in helping entrepreneurs live their best lives. In this episode, Strategic Coach business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller are joined by EOS Worldwide’s leadership duo, Kelly Knight and Mark O’Donnell, to discuss all the ways entrepreneurs can benefit by taking advantage of both EOS and Coach.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

· How Mark and Kelly each became involved in EOS.

· What led to EOS being implemented in Strategic Coach.

· How Strategic Coach was pivotal in the development of EOS.

· What’s allowed EOS to scale enormously over the past few years.

· The strategic by-products that came from EOS becoming a franchiser.

Show Notes:

Roughly 30% of the EOS community is in The Strategic Coach® Program.

There is no point in competing in the marketplace.

Benefiting from EOS was a very profound shift for Strategic Coach.

Being able to conduct sessions virtually has opened up a tremendous opportunity for EOS Implementers®.

Today, EOS has over 850 Implementers doing business in 40 countries, and there are quite a few virtual-only EOS Implementers.

To get the most out of EOS, everybody at the company has to be using it.

Strategic Coach is very much a mindset program.

Team members don’t always know that they need to have an entrepreneurial attitude.

To connect teamwork and technology, you need coaching.

Coaching is to the 21st century what management was to the 20th century.

Resources:

Traction by Gino Wickman

CliftonStrengths®

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Strategic Coach Team Programs

The Experience Transformer®: “Transforming Experiences Into Multipliers”

The Team Success Handbook by Shannon Waller

The Impact Filter™

Unique Ability®

Kolbe

Casting Not Hiring by Dan Sullivan and Jeffrey Madoff

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan

Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan

The DIKW Pyramid

The Positive Focus®

André Brisson was working as a structural engineer when he decided to start his own engineering company. Like a great many entrepreneurs, André knew he needed to be able to do things his way. In this episode, André shares with business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller how he’s found freedom and business success on his entrepreneurial journey.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How the company André worked for became a toxic environment for him.
• What helped André realize that he doesn’t need anyone’s permission.
• Why André’s opinions aren’t popular in bureaucracies or in politics.
• André’s biggest challenges in the construction site field.
• An incredible resource available for entrepreneurs with ADHD.

Show Notes:

If you want to do things differently, you have to find ways of negotiating with people who oppose you.

Entrepreneurial thinking can put other people off because it’s unconventional.

Non-entrepreneurs can only rationalize entrepreneurism.

Entrepreneurism is about freedom, and money is one of the tools you have to have to gain more freedom.

The two types of entrepreneurial freedom are freedom from and freedom to.

Personality and behavioral profiles provide a common language.

It’s useful for people who are different to recognize that the world wasn’t made with them in mind.

Just because something’s been done for a hundred years doesn’t mean it’s applicable right now.

Instead of competing with what someone else is doing, innovate something new.

People will show up if your message is about them.

It’s the check writer who determines whether you’re correct.

If you want to find people who are like you, you have to really know who you are.

Resources:

Unique Ability®

Casting Not Hiring by Dan Sullivan and Jeffrey Madoff

The Unique EDGE® Workshops for young adults

The Impulsive Thinker™

The Impulsive Thinker Podcast

ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer’s World by Thom Hartmann

The Positive Focus®

The Impact Filter™