Jeff Chastain is an entrepreneur and coach. While working with business leaders over the years, the underlying principles of a solid business remain the same. As a Professional EOS Implementer, Jeff has a passion for helping entrepreneurial business leaders get more of what they want from their business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Gino Wickman founder of EOS Worldwide
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I didn’t have the business background, I didn’t have the accounting background, things like that. So, to me that was a real struggle especially in the early phase. Early day you don’t necessarily have the money to go and hire an accounting firm or hire something like that. So, it’s that constant struggle of okay I’ve unfortunately got to spend the time in these areas that I don’t enjoy just to get off the ground. And can you do just enough there to get the ball rolling and the company rolling at that point”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Paperback Book by Gino Wickman
- Get A Grip: How to Get Everything You Want from Your Entrepreneurial Business Book by Gino Wickman and Mike Paton
Favourite Quote:
“The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘We’ve always done it this way’” Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Recommended Online Resources:
EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System for Businesses, home of Traction tools & library. The Entrepreneurial Operating System EOS helps owners and leadership teams create healthier, stronger businesses and achieve powerful results
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“if you can… and there’s obviously financial aspects and everything to this… But if you can you’ve really got to get to the point where you don’t do everything yourself and you trust your people, you trust those around you to say okay I’m handing off this component that I don’t like, that I don’t have time to do, whatever. I handing it off. And as long as you’ve got a scorecard, metrics, et cetera to trust based upon numbers that it’s being done well I’m going to stay out of that playground”…[Listen for More]
More About Jeff Chastain:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.” Charles J. Givens
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jeff Chastain:
- “all businesses fit the same bell curve. There is the initial early start-up days of just trying to survive get money in the door. Then we kind of move into that more funds stage of hay with actually got things flowing, we are having fun in the business, we are having the Friday party’s kind of stuff, it’s the ping-pong table in the conference room and all that kind of fun. Before you start adding on those complexities, adding on those layers and really end up in the mess that which is where I typically find companies when I do EOS. It’s like if you can recognise those warning flags and say hey okay we are starting to see to see some personnel issues, we are starting to see just issues on our list that we can’t address, we are starting to see that I don’t have a good feel any more for where my business is. I don’t have the numbers or anything in front of me. The earlier you can start to recognise those things obviously then it’s easier to address at that point with a lot less stress and angst obviously on the entrepreneur themselves ”
- “once you get beyond the we have an idea and people are willing to pay us for this idea really the biggest secret to success in being able to grow a business is been able to step back and say it’s okay just to be the idea person, just to be the visionary here that says okay this is my vision, this is where we are going to go in business and bring in the people underneath you, bring in the structure underneath you and then really let them do their job. Why you hired them and I get it is incredibly difficult to be hands off like that ”
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