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Dave Mortensen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
580 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

this decision before we move through that, that, that door.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

We've had many one way doors on sometimes we wanted them and sometimes we've lost it.

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)

Um, you have wins and losses on one way doors.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

We love an agile approach in most of our innovations.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

So agile meaning, you know, let's not build it all out.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

I, I,

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

in fact, I'll give you this.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

I think the biggest weakness of organizations is perfection.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

Perfection to me is growth in advancement.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

So if you're always advancing forward, that is perfection.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

You know, I can say one of my proudest things of anytime fitness over the last, what are we going on 23, 24 years?

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

What, what that may be is that every year we've seen positive growth in our business.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

We've had a little positive growth for 20 plus years and,

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

And positive store openings for 20 plus years, meaning every year we have more stores than we did last year.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

That's really, really, really hard to do.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

But that's been a focal point for us to make sure that we always create advancement and not try and get too caught up in perfection.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

Because when you try to be perfect, you miss a lot of the little pieces of the of the puzzle.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

And all of a sudden that perfection becomes really ugly.

The Action Catalyst
Living in the Grey, with Dave Mortensen (Fitness, Leadership, Franchising, Partnerships)

Or you never advance it.