EP417: Mike Michalowicz - How To Build A Shared Vision For Success

Mike Michalowicz with Forwardly Podcast Ad (May 14): I'm not saying to be a great leader, your business needs to be starving. I'm just saying that the importance of your own personal achievement needs to be equal to the importance of everyone else's achievement. When we were all just harmoniously and fortunately moving toward the same thing, survival, and that's when the team was, was gelled. Once we had passed that stage and I started setting these goals for us, I was setting them for me. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fun one. Our returning guest is the author of a new book. It is called All In: How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams. Mike Michalowicz, welcome back to the podcast. Michael, it's awesome to be back with you. Thanks for having me. It's great to have you. You've been on quite a few times. I mean, I know we could just do you every, every week. We've got books, we got things going on. You know, you are a busy person. Yeah, and you too, my friend. Thanks for doing this. It's our pleasure. We love having you back. I know our listener loves listening to you, so this is perfect for them. And you've got this new book, Mike. Why don't we start off there with the new book? How did this come up? What was the idea? Tell us about it.

Ad Read: Yeah, the truthful reason why I write books, and this is only actually on reflection, I thought, you know, I want to serve and care for people. And it's all true. It's all true. But I also am writing for myself and didn't really realize it. It's stuff I need to learn. And by researching and teaching, it forces you to become the best student. So I realized I'm, I'm an okay leader. I'm a marginal leader, and I aspire to be great, but I'm not. And this has helped me increase my competence. Uh, I have flashes or moments of greatness, but that's not my level yet, and I hope to get there. I think there's been a big shift, especially since COVID What was a desire in the past is now a demand in the current. I wanted to work from home. I expect to work from home. I wanted