I want to become the most effective Co-Founder for my company and a leader that people genuinely want to follow. To achieve this, I need to free up significant time by achieving full leverage. I am excited about investing any freed-up time into proactively managing my network to generate breakthrough opportunities as well as focus on deepening relationships with my team in a way that will empower them to be high-performing contributors to our company's success, and create an inclusive, growth-driven culture that embraces curiosity, creative problem solving, experimentation, and doing the right thing.
I want to triple my team's revenue growth within 18 months and be perceived in the industry as the most impressive VP of Sales. I will achieve this by:
(a) being more strategic and proactive and less tactical;
**(b) **establishing the right workflows and systems to set my team up for success, pushing responsibilities down, inspiring accountability, and empowering my team to make the right decisions; and
(c) consistently delivering highly valuable experiences to every prospect, from first contact through purchase decision.
I want to become one of the top 5 partners in my industry. This I will achieve by focusing on:
Leveraging my network to generate high-quality deals,
Adopting a system that ensures I follow through on 100% of my commitments, and
Being perceived as one of the most valuable people to the most important relationships in my network.
I want to be the best CEO I can possibly be to attract and empower top talent and inspire my team to maintain focus and pull together toward our mission as we scale our company. To achieve this, I need to become more intentional about how I allocate my time, increase leverage in the Office of the CEO, and use the time saved to deliver more meaningful experiences to the people I care about both inside and outside the company.
It is time for me to transition from being the "doer-in-chief" to an actual executive-in-chief. To achieve this goal, I need to:
(a) become less reactive and more proactive, focusing my time wisely on the work with the greatest impact;
(b) recruit, empower and motivate the best people for the future of my company;
(c) work with greater leverage to free up time;
(d) use that time to increase the quantity and quality of communication throughout the organization, in part to share my vision and to delegate, but also to become a leader that people want to follow.
My goal is to live the rest of my life in a way that is meaningful to me and to the people I care about most, including my family, my partners, the team at my nonprofit, and our portfolio CEOs. To achieve this goal, I need to invest in four tools:
Learn to be more present in the moment at any point in time;
Learn to inject more humor and lightheartedness into the experiences I deliver to people;
Maintain balance between my family, my firm, and my nonprofit work; and
Provide a genuine experience of caring, support, and reliability to the people I interact with.
I want to become the best version of myself as a CEO and leader, and to leave what I've built at my current company in good hands so I can remain proud of what I have built here. To achieve this, I need to leverage my time more effectively and use that time to
(a) perform more long-term strategic thinking, both for my future and the company's;
(b) invest more time and attention in preparing the team for the transition and after;
(c) invest more time into strengthening my relationships with the people in my network.