Cycle of Success
Donna Carlson
Connector | Cultivator | Catalyst -- Connector | Cultivator | Catalyst — Empowering female CEOs through retreats and Catalyst Councils, fostering whole-life and business strategies for sustainable success.
Call this our monthly book club meeting, but instead of a book I'm going to direct you to the Cycle of Success Institute , created by John Mautner . I learned about Mautner at a Women Presidents Organization workshop on building your business to position it for sale. He taught us that we are literally nuts if we think we can build a scalable business.
He was broke. He had very little cash. He needed to make money fast. He loved to roast nuts. Yes, that's right. Nuts.
Mautner loved confections and roasting sugar-coated nuts. He thought others might like these nuts, so he built a machine on wheels and started selling nuts on the street. He sold a lot of nuts, but he realized that in order to scale his business, he needed to scale his exposure, so he took his nuts to a pro basketball game.
Guess how much he made the first night? $10,000
Mautner went on to sell at every game, then talked to Disney, then Epcot... you can see where this is going. His nuts went nuts until he was a multimillionaire, franchising the nut roasting business globally. Now he teaches companies to scale. Check out some of his case studies here.
This is why you need to read The Profit Pattern: The Top 10 Tools To Transform Your Business, Drive Performance, Empower Your People, Accelerate Productivity and Profitability.
In a nutshell (pun intended), the top 10% get 80% of the results.
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1. Brainstorm 10 questions.
2. Map your process to answer those questions.
3. Do your 7m analysis.
4. Decide your top 10 values. These will drive your priorities.
5. Craft your top 10 priorities. Work them. Evaluate. Adjust.
Put this process on a cycle. Start with your top 10 priorities. Implement using tiger teams to own different aspects or processes. Align discoveries with your process. Create a sustainable practice.
This is another way of looking at the flywheel we created last week. John Mautner's flywheel started with candied roasted nuts. What's at the top of your flywheel? Join the conversation. Comment inline. I'm dying to know.