Scaling Up Business with Bill Gallagher
Do you dream of an easier way to scale and grow your business? Do you wish you didn’t have to work so hard and put in as many hours?
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360 Days a Year: Michel Kripalani's Redesign (opens the original)
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Michel Kripalani worked 360 days a year for over two decades building video game and app companies. Then his father got sick and the surgery was moved up. Michel rebooked his flight — but it landed too late. His wife Karen named the truth that changed everything: there are moments that are negotiable, and moments that are not. So Michel rebuilt the company into a passive-income engine and became an owner, not an operator. "If you want to know your values, don't check your mission statement. Chec
Amplify or Erode: The Daily AI Choice with Johan Roos (opens the original)
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Johan Roos co-invented LEGO Serious Play — the method that has leaders think with their hands instead of their mouths, because the medium you use changes what you can see. Now, with everyone pouring every ounce of oxygen into AI, Johan has written a book arguing that the same forces can quietly erode the very human capabilities that method was built to unlock. And the kicker: he and Bill both have sons working at the leading edge of AI, so this isn't a view from the sidelines. In this episode, B
The Four Sins of the Overworked CEO (opens the original)
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After twenty years of coaching CEOs, Bill sees the same four patterns in nearly every leader who's stuck. They're not moral failures. They're the moves that feel like virtue while quietly destroying your company. Poor Delegation — meet Thomas. Micromanagement — meet Lee. Perfectionism — meet Eddie. Strategic Myopia — meet Rocky. These compound in a doom loop. This week's work: rate yourself on each sin. There's a scored version at busyisbroken.com, plus a parallel version your team can fill out
The Most Collaborative Teams Aren't the Best, with Ron Friedman (opens the original)
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Ron Friedman surveyed 6,000 teams expecting collaboration to be the secret — and found the most collaborative teams aren't the best. The average team loses 29 hours a week to meetings and messages before doing real work. Bill and Ron break down what super teams actually do differently: fewer people in the room, brainwriting over brainstorming, guarded focus time, and recovery that restores instead of drains. Practical, contrarian, and straight at the heart of why busy is broken.
Twice Up the Mountain: Tony Hartl's Second Climb (opens the original)
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Tony Hartl built a chain of tanning salons to 17 locations and 160 employees, sold it in a recession for tens of millions — and then took ten years off. Not to retire. To learn how to climb the mountain a second time without losing everything he lost the first time. The first climb: Planet Tan, built from a $10K loan when Tony was 26. He did every job and grew it to 17 salons before selling at 39. The cost showed up off the balance sheet — his marriage lasted seventeen months and change. Now he'
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