Are you setting up your top performers to fail by making them a manager? Or worse, is your lack of trust destroying the crucial Visionary-Integrator dynamic at the top of your business?

In this episode, Matt Haney sits down with Chris Castillo, a Certified EOS implementer who transformed his own struggling service businesses into scalable, self-managing successes. In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why promoting your best sales rep to manager is setting your team up to fail
• The root of Visionary-Integrator dysfunction and how the "Same Page" meeting fixes it
• Why the Accountability Chart is the best tool for exposing cancer in your business
• How to stop talking in circles and start making decisions
• Why you must never give a rock to an employee who can't swim
• Leading imperfect humans with the "one-word barometer" check-in

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Welcome
07:53 Pivot to EOS Implementer
10:32 Hardest Part About Managing People
16:43 Recurring Issues with Visionaries
21:25 EOS Tools
24:52 Visual Accountability
32:17 Words of Wisdom

Feeling stuck in your business?

It’s ok. We’ve all been there… You simply don’t have time for vision and growth. You feel frustrated, anxious, and stuck because goals aren’t being met, processes aren’t followed, and your team isn’t on the same page. Time after time, you’re putting out fires only fast enough for the next one to pop up.

Get OUT of the Sh*t Show

Let’s build your team and guide them to the next level.

What happens when a visionary founder lacks the courage to be disciplined, or even the courage to lighten up?

In this episode of The Scalability Code, Matt Haney sits down with Jill Young, an expert EOS implementer who has facilitated over 1,300 sessions and author of The Courage Advantage. Jill shares her journey from growing up in a Utah family business to navigating corporate America, only to realize that true innovation and spirit live with scrappy entrepreneurs.

Jill unpacks her best strategies for scaling a business and building healthy teams. She reveals why having the courage to "lighten up" actually broadens your strategic perspective, why company structures shouldn't be changed just to avoid hard conversations, and how to capture wild ideas safely using a "Hallucination Journal".

Feeling stuck in your business?

It’s ok. We’ve all been there… You simply don’t have time for vision and growth. You feel frustrated, anxious, and stuck because goals aren’t being met, processes aren’t followed, and your team isn’t on the same page. Time after time, you’re putting out fires only fast enough for the next one to pop up.

Get OUT of the Sh*t Show

Let’s build your team and guide them to the next level.

The skills that get your business to $10 million aren't the same skills that will get it to $50 million.

In this episode of The Scalability Code, Matt Haney sits down with Christopher Burke, a visionary entrepreneur who bootstrapped Brickenden into a powerhouse consultancy, generating $250 million in sales without any outside funding. Christopher shares his battle scars from 25 years of building global businesses, including his transition from being "in the weeds" to stepping back as a scalable leader.

Christopher holds nothing back as he shares his most painful business lessons, from a disastrous sign-on bonus mistake to a delayed restructuring decision during Brexit that erased 18 months of profit. In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the $10M founder is the exact bottleneck for reaching $50M
• How a delayed Brexit decision wiped out 18 months of profit
• The danger of keeping early-stage "generalist" employees too long
• Why you must track maintainable revenue to avoid shrinking
• The profound legal advice of arguing your issue from the other side
• The ROI of offering life-coaching to uncover your team's "why"

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn

Feeling stuck in your business?

It’s ok. We’ve all been there… You simply don’t have time for vision and growth. You feel frustrated, anxious, and stuck because goals aren’t being met, processes aren’t followed, and your team isn’t on the same page. Time after time, you’re putting out fires only fast enough for the next one to pop up.

Get OUT of the Sh*t Show

Let’s build your team and guide them to the next level.