Entrepreneurs often need to be creative to have a profitable business. What do you do when you aren’t a creative person? In this episode, business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller talk about the “why” and “how” of imitating other people in order to achieve business success.

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

• Why we imitate other people’s performance.
• The reason Dan never attends workshops by other coaches.
• How real creativity involves grafting.
• How uses of technology can be a step back instead of a step forward.

Show Notes:

There are two timeless ways of learning and improving yourself: imitating other people's performance, and repetition.

Humans are the only species that can use their brains to access the uniqueness of other people's brains.

We all imitate other people, whether we like to admit it or not.

If you're creative, and you come across someone who's more creative, you imitate, but at a certain point, you make it your own.

What an imitating person does, and for how long they do it, tells you whether they're just an imitator or whether they're creative.

If you appreciate someone else’s skills, you can translate them into your own world.

Creative people can be polarizing.

You create a new capability using vision and obstacles.

The combination of two people’s uniqueness creates something brand new.

People who imitate but aren’t creative are stealing.

In a world of AI imitation, creative people are going to get wildly more creative to differentiate themselves from robots.

Resources:

Unique Ability®

Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan

Every great entrepreneur wants (and deserves) to have a dependable team around them so they can be freed up to develop new ideas and focus on growing their business. But how do you get one? After all, the first question most entrepreneurs ask when they join The Strategic Coach® Program is, “Where do you find such great team members?” In this episode of Inside Strategic Coach, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller finally answer this question in-depth. From identifying and nurturing Unique Ability® within a team and creating a positive and collaborative work culture to investing in team members’ growth, Dan and Shannon share everything that makes Strategic Coach® a magnet for skilled and passionate talent—and how to become one too.

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

• The number one tool necessary for building and maintaining a great team.
• How to determine if an activity is right for a person.
• Why Strategic Coach team members don’t really need to be managed, monitored, or motivated.
• How Strategic Coach creates an incredible sense of safety for its team members.
• The two things that team members are looking for.
• Why you should think of hiring someone as an investment, not a cost.

Show Notes:

At Strategic Coach, you’re always either winning or learning.

There are a lot of Coach tools that support having a great team.

Everybody's on their own unique growth path in terms of who they are and the kind of work they’re most likely to enjoy and excel at.

Strategic Coach team members can continually focus their time at work on doing what they’re excited about.

The moment someone is hired, Coach invests in learning about who that person is and how they can grow their skills.

At Strategic Coach, if something doesn’t work, the system gets blamed, not the individual.

The four core values of Strategic Coach (PAGE) are: positive and collaborative teamwork, being alert, curious, responsive, and resourceful, getting results, and providing an excellent first-class experience.

Strategic Coach has uniformly very helpful and very positive staff.

Some Coach clients have been with the company for 15, 20, 25 years, and so have some team members.

The educational system generally disparages successful business people.

Almost all Coach team members are directly in contact on a person to person level with the company’s clients.

A team member can’t be at their best if they don’t feel safe.

If you want great team members, you have to be a great entrepreneur. And that also includes being a great person.

Great team members who want a bigger future aren't interested in being with someone who doesn't have any future.

If you're going to be able to attract and retain the best people out there, you can’t have an entitled attitude.

Resources:

Unique AbilityⓇ

Article: Your Business Is a Theater Production: Your Back Stage Shouldn’t Show on the Front Stage

The Team Success Handbook by Shannon Waller

Everyone And Everything Grows by Dan Sullivan

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Every entrepreneur would love to go 10x. So what’s holding them back? In this episode, business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller share the mindset you need to experience major business growth.

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

• The incorrect way that most people interpret 10x.
• How you can learn about going 10x from looking at your past.
• Why people are currently experiencing 10x greater growth very easily.
• How to think of 10x in terms of entrepreneurial freedoms.

Show Notes:

The world is progressing on the basis of new tools, new technologies, and new opportunities.

We’ve all gone 10x many times in our lives.

It’s useful for entrepreneurs to look at how they’ve grown within the framework of their entrepreneurial lives.

You can look at massive growth as a series of 10x jumps.

If you don’t have a deadline for it, it’s only a wish.

Entrepreneurs don’t drive themselves crazy with their goals, they drive themselves crazy with their deadlines.

Money you make can be good or bad depending on the activity and who is writing you the check.

The four entrepreneurial freedoms are freedom of time, money, relationship, and purpose.

All entrepreneurs seek the freedom to focus on whatever they want to focus on.

Looking ahead doesn’t tell you how to go 10x.

Change is a natural part of being an entrepreneur.

Resources:

10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

The Four Freedoms

The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan