Description:

Since 1989, Strategic Coach^® has been helping entrepreneurs find greater happiness and business success. In this episode, Gord Vickman and business coach Dan Sullivan talk about how the company has grown over nearly 35 years and how they’re catering to the needs of successful, collaborative entrepreneurs with growth mindsets.

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

• What entrepreneurs get out of each of the three Strategic Coach program levels.
• Why additional program levels were created
•  Why there’s no competition for entrepreneurs in the “Free Zone.”
• Why Dan considers himself only 50% of the creative team when it comes to innovating new thinking tools.
• How entrepreneurism is like jazz music.
•  The future of The Free Zone Frontier^® Program.

Show Notes:

Thinking tools enable structured thinking.

Strategic Coach thinking tools are all about entrepreneurs thinking about their thinking.

Strategic Coach has 240 trademarked thinking tools. And by this time next year, they’ll have 50 patents.

A Self-Managing Company^® is one where team members manage what already exists, and the entrepreneur creates what's higher, better, and bigger.

A Self-Multiplying Company^™ is where individual team members create new productivity, creativity, and profitability in the world.

For entrepreneurs in the “Free Zone,” their competition wants to be their customers.

Sometimes, your mistakes are your biggest breakthroughs.

Strategic Coach’s ideas come from ongoing experimentation with entrepreneurs.

All entrepreneurs are outliers.

The more thinking tools you have, the more flexible an entrepreneur you are.

Intellectual property—copyrights, trademarks, and patents—is backed up by major governments.

Resources:

The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan