They both know their roles, but most importantly, they are always moving forward.
They're not bogged down by indecision, and they also never say, I told you so, if the other person miscalculates.
There's no egos, no looking back, just moving ahead and making it right where you can.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
It is impossible to create a win, win, win, win, win scenario.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
What you don't want to create is a win, lose, lose, win, win, lose scenario.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
So I care more about creating some wins through the organization, but making sure we don't create losses while we do it.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
If you can create neutral to winning strategies for all of your stakeholders, guess what?
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
The value will get spread across your organization.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
In this episode, we continue our conversation with Dave Mortensen, the president and co-founder of Self-Esteem Brands, now Purpose Brands, including fitness brands like Anytime Fitness, Orange Theory, The Bar Method, and others.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
Weird question.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
You know, you have companies that are focused on, they'll say we're consumer focused, right?
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
We're focused on the consumer.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
And you have some organizations that might say we're focused on our team.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
And you can be focused on both.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
But Dave, if you were like said, hey, we actually, we're part of this culture where we focus on our team first and through that, the customer, or we focus on the customer and do everything we can.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
I mean, how would you explain that relationship?
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
It's funny.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
You either you're a team or you're a customer or you're or you're a product.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
Right.
The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)
A lot of people get enamored with their product.