Brian is a serial entrepreneur, known for pioneering the professional junk hauling industry with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. Since conquering that market, he’s gone on to apply the O2E (ordinary to exceptional) formula to the painting, moving, and home-detailing industry with WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and O2E’s newest brand, Shack Shine.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Ryan Holmes Founder of Hootsuite
Jeff Booth Cofounder of BuildDirect
Fred DeLuca founder of Subway
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Well I started my business just before turning 19. The problem I had as a kid was being very ADD, having trouble sitting still in class, staying focused. My attention just waned all the time and I found I was the class clown; really trying to learning a traditional setting was very difficult. A challenge to overcome and I think its a lifelong challenge of figuring out how do you stay focused, and that’s where eating right, exercise, finding things I love to do have all been important”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. GerberFavourite Quote:
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible” – Walt Disney
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Have a vision. If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. It’s absolutely paramount to have a clear vision, not how are you going to get to that place, but what does the place look like. If you imagine your business at a future point in time, how does it look, how does it feel, how do you act? So have a painted picture”…[Listen for More]
More About Brian Scudamore:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Bill Keller “The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Brian Scudamore:
- “I’m motivated by growth”
- “It’s like a mountain, you don’t get out and climb on your first try Mount Everest, you start with smaller peaks and then you continue to grow the possibility”
- “The secret sauce in our culture is that we’re building something together”
- “We’re motivated by things such as people and meaning much more than money”
- “All work and no play makes someone live a very dull life”
- “Within every failure there’s always been an opportunity to make the people and the business better”
- “We first hire on culture and then train on skill”
- “It’s the tough times that have given us that incredible learning as to how to be better”
- “I’m motivated by the people. In our office space we have a culture which is very open and transparent, no private offices, we believe in openness and transparency”
- “We really created this vision that I started to share with people in my company, and what it did was amazing. It either had people stay and say I want to be a part of that vision, or it had other people choose to leave the company because they didn’t see what we saw. The most incredible alignment tool I’ve ever used and its been absolutely one of the drivers behind our success”
- “We have a huddle meeting every day, seven minute stand up meeting that happens every day without fail, the entire company all hands on deck, and we’re cheering our successes, learning from our mistakes. We really have a culture that is about togetherness and that’s the secret sauce here”
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