The Performance Resource Center
How to Successfully Scale Your MSP or SaaS to Exit (Founder / CFO Point of View): Interview with Will Baccich
In this episode, CFO and entrepreneur Will Baccich shares insights he gleaned going from a few customers in his MSP to 700+ and a successful exit. And, he adds insights gleaned from his current passion - acting as a fractional CFO to help other owners and founders succeed.
Key takeaways on company core values from Patrick Lencioni’s work
Explore Patrick Lencioni's influential ideas on company core values from "The Advantage" and his Harvard Business Review article. Learn how to transform values into actionable guides for employee behavior and company culture.
“The Progress Principle” - How Operating Rhythms Enhance Workplace Creativity
Business owners, CEOs, and leaders can enhance their leadership skills by learning research-backed methods to inspire and engage employees. "The Progress Principle" by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer debunks myths and provides valuable insights on fostering creativity and motivation in the workplace.
How to Level Up an MSP Business: Interview with Danny Suk Brown of AppMeetup
In the specialized world of Managed Service Providers or MSPs, Danny Suk Brown and the team at AppMeetup are called on by companies like Microsoft and Amazon to train thousands of channel partners to grow their businesses. In this interview, we dive into common challenges and solutions to business growth for MSPs. Learn how to level up an MSP business in this episode.
How and when to get in the weeds: the action brief work session method
Learn how the action brief 1x1 meeting method improves accountability through better communication. Discover how we tackle avatar challenges on our scoreboard metrics.
Dr. Rebecca Homkes, Executive Advisor, on 3 Steps for CEOs to Thrive Forward
Dr. Rebecca Homkes specializes in high-growth strategy. She consults to CEOs all over the world and has developed a highly effective framework to help CEOs navigate the road ahead. She lectures on growth, entrepreneurship and innovation at the London Business School and serves as Director at the Strategic Management Centre. She’s previous Fellow at the London School of Economics’ (LSE) Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). Homkes is the director of the global Applied Learning Programme (ALP) for the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and works with high-growth and scaling entrepreneurial companies across industries and countries. She previously served as a Fellow at the White House’s President’s Council of Economic Advisors and has worked in management and strategy consulting for Bain & Co. in Chicago. You can see her complete bio at the bottom of the show notes. In this episode, Dr. Homkes shares some of her successes and observations helping CEOs navigate the new economy, and the framework she authored that’s proven to be incredibly valuable.
Zach Brandon, Mental Skills Coordinator for the Arizona Diamondbacks, on self-talk for major league success
Zach is the Mental Skills Coordinator for major league baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks, and prior to that, he was a mental skills coach at the elite and legendary athlete development school IMG Academy. He is currently also the Director of MVP Mindset Consulting.
Resilience + Innovation Roadmaps
A roadmap for the Resilience Economy has been laid out by leaders who’ve gone far beyond the theories. This series of posts explores the lessons offered to us from the work of Special Forces veterans.
Peter Himmelman talks creativity, focus, and vision
Peter built his company Big Muse to help organizations like Boeing, Adobe, 3M, Kellogg, and Wharton unlock their team creativity and trust. And the principles aren't theoretical for Peter—before he started this company, he was a successful musician—complete with a stack of awards, including Grammy and Emmy nominations. He's prolific by any definition and he's passionate about teaching others. Peter contributes to Forbes and the ResultMaps Performance Resource Center, and he has written a book we highly recommended called Let Me Out: Unlock Your Creative Mind and Bring Your Ideas to Life. The book has been lauded by people like Adam Grant and Arianna Huffington.
Sean Sheppard, Co-Founder of growthX, on Learning, Scale, and Effective Change Management
Sean co-founded and scaled sales at multiple companies by developing a repeatable system that helps companies learn fast and execute methodically at the same time. He used it to co-found GrowthX and GrowthX Academy, and it's been licensed to incubators from Canada to Asia. You can find him speaking at sales conferences or places like the London Business School and the NASDAQ, and helping establish companies to become disruptors by developing new markets.
Will Bunker on disrupting bigger, more established companies and sustaining innovation
Will is an industrial engineer who's run an array of challenging businesses from farming to mining operations and more. He co-founded GrowthX and the dating platform OneAndOnly.com, which outpaced an impressive array of competitors before being bought and rebranded as Match.com. He's gone on to invest in or lead more than 160 companies and still helps some of the very biggest in the world transition to new technology fast.