Mike Michalowicz
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1,537 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 20 Feb
Mike Michalowicz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One of my favorite stories, and we have lots of them, but this was my favorite.
There's a baseball team called the Savannah Bananas.
I have Savannah, Georgia, and they are explosively successful.
They are a all-star college team.
In other words, they're in an industry that makes no money, except for this one.
They've become the Harlem Globetrotters, and they are selling out their stadium of 5,000 people every day.
They're more profitable on a percentage basis than any team, including major league teams in the world.
But what they've done...
was they implemented Profit First from the get-go.
And the founder, Jesse Cole, and his wife, Emily, reached out and said, when we ran Profit First, we didn't have enough money in our expenses to maintain the scoreboard, which is an electronic scoreboard.
So instead of saying, we need to borrow money, or we got to spend more than we have, they said, the system tells us we can't afford it, no scoreboard.
And what they did is they brought people from the stands, like a boxing ring match, they walk by with the score before each inning.
And people loved it.
They've engaged the audience in participating in the game.
And that's one of their secrets for how successful they become.
The moral of the story is constraint of cash brings around an explosion of innovation, new thoughts, and you'll break the industry rules.
You are much more likely to define the industry or redefine the industry.
Yeah, hashtag truth.
I mean, that's a truth bomb and a half.
That's fact, Hala, is that the more variability, the more we dilute our ability to be good at any one thing.
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