Why Your Business Will Never Escape This Stage, Unless . . .

Does running your business ever feel a little bit like herding cats? Like trying to nail jello to a tree? Maybe you've hired some thoroughbreds to work on your team and you've finally gotten some help, but you just can't seem to get everyone running in the same direction. When my son Daniel was a little guy, five years old, he decided he was going to start playing ice hockey, and I had played, so dad gets to be the coach. Let me tell you what's more fun.

Nothing is more fun at all on the planet than a whole bunch of five-year-olds with pads and helmets and skates on rolling around the ice chasing the puck. They were so disorganized, like a little beehive chasing something around. And so what we had to do as quickly as we could was to teach them to stay in their lanes and pass the puck back and forth across the ice instead of everybody just following it. So we had to convert chaos into a system and as soon as we did that, we started

winning hockey games, if that's what you call it with five-year-olds. If you can relate to that, then it probably means you're in the second stage that all businesses go through, which we call the pathfinder stage. And today John Felkins from Entree Leadership is going to show you how to move past the Pathfinder stage. You'll learn how to align your team around a clear mission to get everyone to chase the same goals without chasing the puck all at once. In the Pathfinder stage, your business starts to feel, well, a little messy.

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