The Good Advice Podcast: Do Business Better with Blake Binns

#14 - Why Bosses Don't Understand Management

In this episode, Blake talks about how often bosses miss the mark with management, and how mismanagement and mistakes can actually force out really great employees. In reality, building a great team shouldn’t be that hard – but it’s often easier to blame employees than recognize our own flaws as leaders.

#13 - Proving You Have What People Want

In this episode, Blake breaks down once of the most common problems he sees in fresh, new entrepreneurs and how to easily avoid it.

#12 - Your Ego Will Ruin You

In this episode, Blake explores the struggle that every person faces – Ego. Blake shares some firsthand experiences with customers who have struggled with ego and the difference in outcome between those who can recognize and overcome and those who are will do anything to protect it. In reality, the greatest leaders are the ones who can put their ego aside.

#11 - Stop Caring About Impressing Everyone Else

In this episode, Blake explores our innate need to be liked. In order to build our personal brand, and particularly in entrepreneurship, being productive means overcoming the common fear of “what will people think?”

#10 - You'll Be Successful When You Become Intentional

In this episode, Blake talks about the secret to success being more than just your giftings – the people who make it versus those who don’t are driven by dedication. They are intentional with their lives and getting where they actually want to go. As you engage in 2019, it’s time to get after it.

#9 - Finding Your Identity as a Leader

In this episode, Blake talks about what it means to really develop security in yourself as a leader rather than relying on titles, positions, incomes, etc. as what defines you. Including some insights from former CEO of Tyson, Donnie Smith, Blake discusses how the most successful companies involve leadership at the top with clear identities of service that actually place themselves at the bottom – contrasted with the most toxic of companies where leadership finds their value in their titles and who do anything to protect it… even at the expense of the company and the people within it.

#8 - Surround Yourself with Truthtellers

In this episode, Blake discusses how some of the greatest companies failed because of an unwillingness to reward truthtelling within the organization. In this same way, your potential for success and impact are directly tied to intentionally surrounding yourself with people who can point out your blind spots and help you grow.

#7 - Own It -- Are You Interested or Committed?

In this episode, Blake talks about how most people are just interested, rather than committed, and it’s why so many dreams never really come to fruition. The ones who are successful are the ones who really commit, despite the adversity that comes their way. If you want to be committed – then own it!

#6 - It's Okay to Fail

In this episode, Blake talks about the NBA’s Deandre Jordan and his phenomenal improvement in his free throw percentage from a 44% to 81% – and how the Mavs have created an environment where it’s okay to fail. Interestingly enough, when we know it’s okay to fail, we’re willing to take the steps necessary to have incredible success. Moreover, it’s through our failures that we learn how we need to grow and change so that we can truly have a legacy of impact.

#5 - How Complexity is Killing Fortune 500 Companies

In this episode, Blake talks about how we live in an age with unprecedented access to data… with few able to understand it. Because of this, Fortune 500s among other companies are dying off at a rate faster than ever simply because our dysfunction becomes a product of our complexity.