Why do some companies continually grow while most fail? You need more than a great idea; you need to surround yourself with others who are thinking the same way. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the successes of Steve’s unique, collaborative StartUp Health network, the mindsets entrepreneurs need in order to achieve the greatest success, and the things they do that most entrepreneurs won’t even think about.

• Medical breakthroughs are happening at such a fast rate that the most knowledgeable person really only knows how ignorant they are.
• “Free Zone” collaborations aren’t about the money that’s exchanged.
• True collaboration bypasses a lot of problems entrepreneurs normally think about because there’s no competition.
• There’s probably no industry on the planet that has less collaboration than health care.
• It can be difficult to maintain a transformative mindset when you’re surrounded by resistance to transformation.
• If you’re working at effecting change over the long term, you need to have a long-term view to feel good waking up every day.
• There are entrepreneurs who are coachable and open to the idea of lifelong learning, and there are entrepreneurs who aren’t there yet.
• Even at their most competitive, entrepreneurs are more collaborative than people who aren’t in the entrepreneurial marketplace.
• Real intelligence isn’t what your individual brain does; it’s how your brain accesses the brains of other people.

Resources:

Unique Ability®

The Strategic Coach® Program

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