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#612: If You Own the Business, Why Does the Week Own You? w/ Dustin Booth

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#611: Fixing a Terrible Sales Compensation Plan

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#610: Do the Math: Most Business Visions Don’t Survive the Numbers

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#609: How to Know if a Business Is Worth Buying (Or If You’re Buying a Job)

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#608: You Don't Get Bonus Points for Remembering

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#607: Rembrandt’s in the Attic

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#606: Priorities & Allocation of Resources (Quarterly Planning)

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#605: Playbook for Creating Playbooks

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#604: Lead Yourself First with Dustin Booth

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#603: The Operating System Architecture

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#602: Marie Kondo Your Digital Files

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#601: Operating System Foundational Best Practices

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#600: Getting on the Same Page... Literally

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#599: Reviewing Game Film

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#598: Team Bonus Best Practices

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#597: Asking Skilled Questions - Developing as a Leader

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#596: Functional Areas of Business

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#595: Developing A-Players

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#594: Systems Champion

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#593: Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs)

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#592: Idea to Implementation Framework

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#591: The Business Never Outgrows Its Leadership with Sean Patton

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#590: Compensation Plan Guidelines

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#589: Winning the Buyer Before First Contact with Bob Ruffolo

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#588: Rules for the Selling Sales Manager

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#587: Growing a Business Without Hiring with Jonathan Stark

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#586: Sales Process - Introduction & Discovery

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#585: The Case for Simplifying Your Business with Scott Grates

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#584: Sales Systems - Implement Visible Tracking

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#583: Designing a Business That Runs Without You with Jason Henneberry

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#582: Sales Belief

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#581: Leading Through the AI Shift with Caroline Stokes

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#580: Dealing With Toxic High Performance

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#579: Building a Business That Doesn't Need You with Jason Swenk

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#578: Google Maps & Your Business

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#577: The Three Pillars of Predictable Growth with Stephen Woessner

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#576: Unconscious Incompetence

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#575: Delegation as a Growth Strategy with Kyle Willis

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#574: Coach vs Consultant

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#573: The Customer Experience Advantage with Daniel Daly

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#572: The Hawthorne Effect

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#571: What Has to Change as Your Business Grows with Brad Farris

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#570: Attract A-Players Playbook

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#569: Why Most Problems Solve Themselves with Brad Poulos

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#568: Buy or Build the Talent

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#567: Leadership in the Fog with Pete Behrens

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#566: Functional Leaders vs Helpers

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#565: Building Your Dream Team with David Peterson

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#564: Production vs Potential (The Transfer Portal)

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#563: The Four Forces of Growth with Kevin Lawrence

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#562: Good vs Great Business Owners

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#561: Building a Better Business in a Fragmented Industry with Michael Jacobson

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#560: Why Business Owners Quit Right Before They Make $1,000,000

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#559: From Doing the Work to Leading the Business with Michael Zipursky

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#558: Creating a Marketing Dashboard

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#557: Marketing That Actually Drives Growth with Matt Jonza

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#556: Understanding Marketing Metrics

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#555: What Makes a Business Sellable with David Barnett

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#554: Understanding Marketing Plans

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#553: Why Teams Stay Silent and What Leaders Can Do About It with Megan Reitz

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#552: Structure and Process vs. Freedom and Flexibility

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#551: How to Give Better Feedback Without Losing Trust with Amy Sandler

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#550: One Size Doesn't Fit All (The Bathrobe Theory)

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#549: Learning the Business End of Business with Brian Kiley

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#548: What Matters & What Are You Going to Do About It?

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#547: The Core Principles Behind Authentic Leadership with Dr. Matt Paden

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Episode 546: Moving the Goalposts (The Gap & The Gain)

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Episode 545: Simple Numbers, Real Talk - What the Data Says About Your Business with Greg Crabtree

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Episode 544: The GOATED Books

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Episode 543: How to Build a Sales Team That Doesn't Depend on You with Nikki Rausch

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Episode 542: Time and Energy Audits

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Episode 541: Small Business Spotlight - How to Scale Without Burning Out with Dustin Booth

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Episode 540: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)

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Episode 539: Creating Exceptional Customer Experiences with Marc Haine

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Episode 538: Playing To Win

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Episode 537: Aligning Your Behavior with Business Objectives with Chris Papin

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Episode 536: Quotas

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Episode 535: Thinking Like an Acquirer with Cameron Bishop

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Episode 534: Groundhog Day

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Episode 533: Building a Business for the Long Haul with Chris Ducker

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Episode 532: How to Win - The Curt Cignetti Blueprint

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Episode 531: Designing the Five-Star Experience in Your Small Business

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Episode 530: Margin

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Episode 529 Growing a Business with a Blueprint - Club Capital's 10 Year Journey

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Episode 528: Read It. Realized It?

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Episode 527: Best of 2025

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Episode 526: Systems Thinking

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Episode 525: Punched in the Face - The Real Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs with Chad Cannon

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Episode 524: Mann Gulch

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Episode 523: Business Blueprint Spotlight - Dave Curry's Journey from Struggle to Success

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Episode 522: Me In 10 Years

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Episode 521: The Science of Communication and Leading Through Presence with Dr. Nick Morgan

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Episode 520: Signal vs. Noise

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Episode 519: Business Owner Spotlight: Graeme Barlow - Serial Entrepreneur & Founder of FounderLink

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Episode 518: Build Once, Ship Twice

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Episode 517: Anthony Iannarino on Sales Excellence in the AI Era

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Episode 516: You Have Enough “Ideas” to Destroy Your Business in 2026

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Episode 515: On Annual Planning - A Guide to 2026

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Episode 514: The Visionary Integrator Fallacy

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Episode 513: RECAST - Leadership and Team Development with David Peterson