The 4 Stages of a Business Presentation

helps you out after you're done watching it can I sit up here are these safe anywhere you want to see it okay so for my first 16 years of business everything I touched turned to gold right now do you notice when that shark stops what year 2007. does anybody remember 2008 no or what I just said whatever business it is is going to have this same exact type of a a trajectory or a model um the first stage is Hands-On so the Hands-On stage is where you're actually in the trenches building the pods how many people in here are physically doing the work I'm gonna guess it's the majority of you right you're physically working in the thing that's the majority of businesses in America the second stage is the hardest of the four stages in business the second stage is working with others why is this stage the hardest stage in business where other people are involved because other people involved employees right and you've got to get what's in your mind into somebody else's mind is that a challenge that's a huge challenge okay and the famous phrase that all business owners like to say is if I want it done it right done it done right I should do it myself myself good and you're going to always be in the trenches right and by the way that's okay if that's what you want but but the this is the this is the thing that I ask myself basically ever since I started my business very very soon after my my second year when I had to hire other people to run things I said this is a brilliant question by the way is this the job of a CEO is this the job of the CEO to be building the ponds and my answer to that was no that's a job of a Foreman is this the job of a CEO to be selling ponds and my answer to that was no that's the job of a sales person is this the job of a CEO to be designing and laying out a catalog that's the last job I had here in 2000 and um uh who whose job is that did I answer graphic designer right so I worked my way out of every job in this business to eventually I don't have a job and instead every single day when I get my ass busy doing stuff I'm working on the business and not and I got out of the way of a guy that was right behind me that was a much differently wired guy I gave him a rope and what did Ed do and then he got out of the way and who went right behind that Brian and then Brian gets out of the way and then Chris and then Chris gets out of the way talking on a mic and second your teammate Jack is going to be leading in construction if you do that if…