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Ryan Blair

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
771 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Yeah. There's a book called The E-Myth that changed my life early on in my career by Michael Gerber. I read it and I said, I have to, you know, Learn how to properly document process. I learned that in the tech field. And now, I will tell you, very few people can both create a process and run one. It's rare. That's really the entrepreneur's job. I don't hire people to create process and run them.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Yeah. There's a book called The E-Myth that changed my life early on in my career by Michael Gerber. I read it and I said, I have to, you know, Learn how to properly document process. I learned that in the tech field. And now, I will tell you, very few people can both create a process and run one. It's rare. That's really the entrepreneur's job. I don't hire people to create process and run them.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

I generally lead from the front. I create the process. And then I bring someone else in to run it. One mistake I see many entrepreneurs doing when they scale is they hire people to create and run process. And oftentimes, you just don't get optimal process. Because they don't truly understand your business. And they don't understand the business.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

I generally lead from the front. I create the process. And then I bring someone else in to run it. One mistake I see many entrepreneurs doing when they scale is they hire people to create and run process. And oftentimes, you just don't get optimal process. Because they don't truly understand your business. And they don't understand the business.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

I generally lead from the front. I create the process. And then I bring someone else in to run it. One mistake I see many entrepreneurs doing when they scale is they hire people to create and run process. And oftentimes, you just don't get optimal process. Because they don't truly understand your business. And they don't understand the business.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

And it's a special talent for someone who can show up to no process whatsoever, no structure, no organization, and create order out of chaos. That's a rare talent.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

And it's a special talent for someone who can show up to no process whatsoever, no structure, no organization, and create order out of chaos. That's a rare talent.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

And it's a special talent for someone who can show up to no process whatsoever, no structure, no organization, and create order out of chaos. That's a rare talent.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Well, everyone has a different stack and using a software term, I've just built a stack, right? So you have your character and your competency and you have a stack of character traits and you have a stack of competencies that are necessary. On the competency side, as you can tell I'm a math guy, so I'm gonna break this, engineer this down for you. I try to reverse engineer everything.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Well, everyone has a different stack and using a software term, I've just built a stack, right? So you have your character and your competency and you have a stack of character traits and you have a stack of competencies that are necessary. On the competency side, as you can tell I'm a math guy, so I'm gonna break this, engineer this down for you. I try to reverse engineer everything.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Well, everyone has a different stack and using a software term, I've just built a stack, right? So you have your character and your competency and you have a stack of character traits and you have a stack of competencies that are necessary. On the competency side, as you can tell I'm a math guy, so I'm gonna break this, engineer this down for you. I try to reverse engineer everything.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

But on the competency side, you have to have sales, you have to have marketing, you have to have supply chain, depending on the product. You have to have finance, you have to have technology. You might have to have international, you might have to have treasury. Like, there's a lot of competencies that you have to learn to scale a big business. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

But on the competency side, you have to have sales, you have to have marketing, you have to have supply chain, depending on the product. You have to have finance, you have to have technology. You might have to have international, you might have to have treasury. Like, there's a lot of competencies that you have to learn to scale a big business. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

But on the competency side, you have to have sales, you have to have marketing, you have to have supply chain, depending on the product. You have to have finance, you have to have technology. You might have to have international, you might have to have treasury. Like, there's a lot of competencies that you have to learn to scale a big business. Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Um, and, and those are skills and you have to have the capacity to learn those skills. You have to have the desire to learn the skills. You have to have a life where you say in a belief that you believe you can learn any skill, right. Which is on the character side. So beliefs is on the character side.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Um, and, and those are skills and you have to have the capacity to learn those skills. You have to have the desire to learn the skills. You have to have a life where you say in a belief that you believe you can learn any skill, right. Which is on the character side. So beliefs is on the character side.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Um, and, and those are skills and you have to have the capacity to learn those skills. You have to have the desire to learn the skills. You have to have a life where you say in a belief that you believe you can learn any skill, right. Which is on the character side. So beliefs is on the character side.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Yeah, I think I have that belief, but I also hire people that are really brilliant at that particular area quickly.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Yeah, I think I have that belief, but I also hire people that are really brilliant at that particular area quickly.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Transformative Power of Mentorship with Ryan Blair

Yeah, I think I have that belief, but I also hire people that are really brilliant at that particular area quickly.