John Gafford

When you sit down with people, obviously, the hiring of certain staff to replace yourself so you don't become the bottleneck is important.

But you also do a scaling plan where you're saying, here's this benchmark, and then when this happens, we're executing this.

When this happens, we're executing this.

I do some consulting for equity on small businesses, people that just don't know.

And what I always find is when somebody calls me in, the first hurdle that I have with them is they don't speak the language of business.

I mean, most people came in and, hey, I just started this and it's worked out and here we are and it's going well.

what i'm curious what your answer is for this what are there any books that you advise people like okay we need to get where we're speaking the same language go read this and then and then then we'll talk is there any is there one particular book like that that you advise ah you know i i i write books more than i read them yeah um you know

Because what I love about that book, that particular book, and again, I get nothing for saying this.

I think it's a very useful tool for this.

But if you read it through the lens of your business as you go through and just take notes of things that you could do to impact your business.

I actually go back to it probably every, I don't know, maybe call it year and a half, two years, and I'll just read through it.

And I'll be like, yeah, that's where I get my hit list of places in our businesses that probably need some help.

That's where I get my hits.

Yeah, that's why I talk about it all the time.

I love the mastermind groups that I'm in because they just compress time.

Because there's somebody in that room that's at a high level.

You know, if you're the highest level guy, person in your mastermind group, you're in the wrong group.

But you can walk in and there should be people that you can lean on for that information.

It compresses time.

The only thing in the world that compresses time is information.