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Fixing Your Firefighter Management Problem: How to Break the Habit & Get Back to Doing the Work That Really Matters – In Just 7 Minutes with Alecia Huck

Why you've got to check out this episode

  • Discover why it’s not a people issue but rather an infrastructure issue
  • Learn how you can break out of that firefighting and do solutions that would actually work while growing
  • Understand why hiring more, spending more, and working longer hours isn’t the right answer to your problem
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Summary:

Do you feel like nothing is just ever working especially when your business is growing? Do you want to save yourself some time and money and find the best solution for this?

Management isn’t all about training, hiring, and managing employees, it’s also about looking into the structure of the business. It’s not always about the people, sometimes it’s about the infrastructure.

Alecia Huck is the founder of MAVERICK & Company and specializes in developing leadership teams and helping them spend less time-fighting fires and more time building what matters.

Listen to what Alecia has to share on how you can spend less time, stress, and money on your management problem by diving deeper into your systems through her life-changing reflection and tips.

Check out these episode highlights

  • 01:44 – Alecia’s ideal client: Typically, the people that I work with. My specialty is going to be the executive teams of fast-growing companies. And those are typically between $5 and $75 million.
  • 02:40 – The problem she helps solve: So a lot of people start a company. You work really, really hard, right? You grow. And that’s what you want– both in size and, hopefully, in profit. And then one day, things just don’t work the same way.
  • 04:04 – The symptoms of the problem: So you guys are gonna love this because you can’t just say it’s a certain revenue mark, and there’s no number of employees– it just varies too much from industry to industry. But there are five really good, reliable signals, right?
  • 05:44 – Clients’ common mistakes before consulting Alecia: They’re going to think you can hire their way out of it. Right? I’ll just get more people. They can add more cooks to their kitchen without better systems. And they’ll spend money on things like software, right?
  • 06:41 – Alecia’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): So if you want to break out of that firefighting, where you’re just running around solving problems, here’s what I want you to do. It’s really super sophisticated. See this? Get a sheet of paper out. Write good on it.
  • 07:20 – Alecia’s Valuable Free Resource (VFR): To get more FREE awesome insights on how to keep winning while growing, click here: https://www.maverickandcompany.com/bigger-is-different
  • 08:15
    Q: What do I want people to know?
    A: You don’t have to be somebody you’re not in order to win. You don’t have to have a room full of binders. You don’t have to sell your soul. You can win as you.

Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode

“You don't have to be somebody you're not in order to win. You can win as you.”

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About Tom Poland

I am a Marketing Mentor who started my first business at age 24 and has gone on to start and sell four others, taking two of them international. In that time I managed teams of over 100 people and annual revenue of more than 20 million.

These days my thing is “Leadsology®: The Science of Being in Demand” which is a blended learning program that gives professional advisors a model for generating a flow of high-quality, inbound, new client enquiries into their businesses almost every week of the year.

Over 2000 business owners across 193 different industries and 4 continents have been through my programs and many have gone on to add millions to their earnings and their testimonials are available on this website

My work has been published in 27 countries and I’ve also shared international speaking platforms with the likes of Michael Gerber of E-Myth fame, Richard Koch from the 80-20 Principle, Brian Tracy and many others.