The Entrepreneur's Logbook: Lessons from Growing Businesses
Zachary Bernard
28 episodes
4 weeks ago
The Entrepreneur's Logbook brings you inside the minds of today's most successful business leaders to uncover the strategies, decisions, and frameworks driving extraordinary growth. Each episode features founders and CEOs sharing their proven approaches to scaling teams, expanding market share, and building thriving companies.
Our guests - from bootstrapped success stories to venture-backed innovators - break down the exact systems, processes, and strategies you can use to grow your company. No fluff, just actionable insights you can apply to your business.
Whether you're leading a growing team, aiming to break through revenue plateaus, or planning your next expansion, each episode delivers tested playbooks and practical wisdom from leaders who've turned small businesses into market leaders. Think of it as your masterclass in sustainable business growth.
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The Entrepreneur's Logbook brings you inside the minds of today's most successful business leaders to uncover the strategies, decisions, and frameworks driving extraordinary growth. Each episode features founders and CEOs sharing their proven approaches to scaling teams, expanding market share, and building thriving companies.
Our guests - from bootstrapped success stories to venture-backed innovators - break down the exact systems, processes, and strategies you can use to grow your company. No fluff, just actionable insights you can apply to your business.
Whether you're leading a growing team, aiming to break through revenue plateaus, or planning your next expansion, each episode delivers tested playbooks and practical wisdom from leaders who've turned small businesses into market leaders. Think of it as your masterclass in sustainable business growth.
Liberating Your Business from Chaos: Scott Beebe, Founder of Business On Purpose | #16
The Entrepreneur's Logbook: Lessons from Growing Businesses
33 minutes 5 seconds
6 months ago
Liberating Your Business from Chaos: Scott Beebe, Founder of Business On Purpose | #16
In this episode of the Entrepreneur's Logbook Podcast, we sit down with Scott Beebe, Founder of Business On Purpose, a company dedicated to liberating business owners from chaos through systems, processes, and purpose-driven strategies.
Episode Highlights:
[00:01:00] Scott shares his diverse background, from telemarketing to pharmaceutical sales to pastoral work and eventually founding Business On Purpose.
[00:03:00] The value of "reps" - how repeated experience in different environments builds the expertise needed to guide business owners.
[00:05:00] Scott explains how chaos manifests in small businesses through common phrases like "I spend my whole day putting out fires" and "throwing Hail Marys just to get through the day."
[00:07:00] The subtle ways chaos deceives business owners into believing "there's no other way" to run their operations.
[00:09:00] How outside vendors should reduce chaos, not create more of it - a key principle when seeking help.
[00:12:00] The importance of awareness moments that give business owners a "shot of joy" amidst the ongoing vigilance against chaos.
[00:14:00] Scott shares the RPMs of great leadership: Repetition, Predictability, and Meaning - the framework for creating stability.
[00:16:00] A powerful real-world example of chaos striking: two team members losing their fathers on the same day before a major event.
[00:17:00] The 85-15 rule: How businesses should strive to predict 85% of what happens while allowing for the 15% that requires unique brilliance.
[00:19:00] Thomas Edison's wisdom: "Vision without implementation is hallucination" - the critical importance of execution.
[00:22:00] How Scott vets potential clients with a 26-point checklist and requires specific time commitments rather than accepting "whatever it takes" answers.
[00:24:00] The danger of isolation for business owners and the value of community - "They come for the content, but they stay for the connection."
[00:28:00] Scott's concept of "work worth doing" and how it shapes Business On Purpose's high-touch, relationship-based coaching model.
[00:30:00] Final advice: Either commit to creating systems with repetition, predictability, and meaning, or "quit and get a job" - the honest truth about business ownership.
Connect with Scott Beebe:
Website: https://businessonpurpose.com/book
Connect with Zach on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itszachb/
The Entrepreneur's Logbook: Lessons from Growing Businesses
The Entrepreneur's Logbook brings you inside the minds of today's most successful business leaders to uncover the strategies, decisions, and frameworks driving extraordinary growth. Each episode features founders and CEOs sharing their proven approaches to scaling teams, expanding market share, and building thriving companies.
Our guests - from bootstrapped success stories to venture-backed innovators - break down the exact systems, processes, and strategies you can use to grow your company. No fluff, just actionable insights you can apply to your business.
Whether you're leading a growing team, aiming to break through revenue plateaus, or planning your next expansion, each episode delivers tested playbooks and practical wisdom from leaders who've turned small businesses into market leaders. Think of it as your masterclass in sustainable business growth.
