CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'

2023-10-10 · 52 min · episode 505 · 28 entities

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→ discusses Business concept

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Feed category: Business
→ discusses Investing concept

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Feed category: Investing
→ discusses Entrepreneurship concept

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Feed category: Entrepreneurship
→ hosted by HubSpot company

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Feed author/publisher: Hubspot
→ hosted by Hubspot Media company

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→ references joinhampton.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://joinhampton.com/
→ references ideationbootcamp.co website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://ideationbootcamp.co/
→ references copythat.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://copythat.com/
→ references shaanpuri.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://shaanpuri.com/
→ references supportshepherd.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://supportshepherd.com/
→ references The Generalist podcast

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://maven.com/generalist/writing
→ references Remoteassistant website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
→ references smallboy.co website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://smallboy.co/

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mentioned joinhampton.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://joinhampton.com/
mentioned ideationbootcamp.co website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://ideationbootcamp.co/
mentioned copythat.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://copythat.com/
mentioned shaanpuri.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://shaanpuri.com/
mentioned supportshepherd.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://supportshepherd.com/
mentioned Remoteassistant website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
mentioned smallboy.co website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://smallboy.co/
references joinhampton.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://joinhampton.com/
references ideationbootcamp.co website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://ideationbootcamp.co/
references copythat.com website

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evidence rules-v4
Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://copythat.com/
references shaanpuri.com website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://shaanpuri.com/
references supportshepherd.com website

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evidence rules-v4
Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://supportshepherd.com/
references Remoteassistant website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant
references smallboy.co website

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://smallboy.co/

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mentioned Business concept

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mentioned Investing concept

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Feed category: Investing
mentioned Entrepreneurship concept

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Feed category: Entrepreneurship
mentioned Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO concept

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CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'
discusses Business concept

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Feed category: Business
discusses Investing concept

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Feed category: Investing
discusses Entrepreneurship concept

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Feed category: Entrepreneurship
mentioned CEO concept

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CEO

companys 4

mentioned HubSpot company

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Feed author/publisher: Hubspot
mentioned Hubspot Media company

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hosted by HubSpot company

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Feed author/publisher: Hubspot
hosted by Hubspot Media company

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Feed author/publisher: Hubspot Media

podcasts 2

mentioned The Generalist podcast

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://maven.com/generalist/writing
references The Generalist podcast

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Link in episode "CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO'": https://maven.com/generalist/writing

Episode description as stored

Episode 505: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk about their biggest regrets as first-time CEOs and the shortcuts they’ve learned after 15 years of running businesses. (Disclaimer: This is not the type of stuff they teach at Harvard Business School.) Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Want MFM Merch? Check out our store here. Want to see the best clips from MFM? Subscribe to our clips channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:00) Doomed Mission Statements (7:00) Hiring people you want to be around (12:00) Naming, Branding and Trademarks (17:00) How to make better hires (26:00) Ambitious Goal Setting vs Achievable Goal Setting (31:00) Not losing my shit (35:00) Firing 101 (38:00) Focus vs. Saying 'no' too much (46:00) Pre- vs. Post-product market fit Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More