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John Felkins — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
John Felkins has appeared on 16 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The EntreLeadership Podcast. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What John said
“Training is not micromanagement. Micromanagement is when you train somebody, you've given them the responsibility, but you stand over their shoulders still and watch them do that.”
— John Felkins (13:47)
“If you look at all of that, if you say, 'gosh, our next level leadership just they're not quite where we need them to be,' that can be kind of overwhelming and you don't know where to start... just put a little red yellow green by skill by name. And then you've got a picture, and you can attack the picture because in pieces.”
— John Felkins (12:48)
“I'm kind of allergic to the word rule. Because a rule implies like I have to do this thing for no good reason.”
— John Felkins
“You don't want a company culture where the comment is, 'hey, you don't want to get caught doing that.' You want a culture that the language is 'that's not who we are.'”
— John Felkins
“One of the hardest things to ask people to do is to give to others what they were never given, to demonstrate for their team what wasn't demonstrated for them.”
— John Felkins
“Sometimes when you promote somebody that has strong technical skills to a leadership role... you lose a good technician and gain a bad leader.”
— John Felkins
“Look for opportunities to catch somebody doing something right. Drag that person to the front of the room and say, 'This is what it means to be us.'”
— John Felkins
“Do you want to be Dutch or do you want to be successful?”
— John Felkins, challenging Siba's identity attachment.
“Do you want to be Dutch and be in business, or do you want to be a businessman that happens to own a Dutch bakery?”
— John Felkins, reframing the owner's mindset.
“If you're gonna run a business, you gotta love your product, but you gotta love it so much that you allow it to change and to iterate.”
— John Felkins, closing insight.
Episode appearances
16 In 2019, Spirit Airlines filed a public document warning that its survival depended on everything going right: stable fuel prices, access to financing, a healthy economy, and its business strategy…
Josh Hembry, the new owner of a 57-year-old heating and air conditioning company in Alabama, has a problem his team won't follow key internal processes. He thinks it is an accountability issue,…
How to Have Effective One-on-Ones Of all the meetings in a business, the one most leaders dread—or skip entirely—is the one that advances the business most. "Most leaders dread one-on-ones or…
Zach Bayard runs a low-voltage company in Florida that installs cameras, access control, structured cabling, and jail control systems. He started the business in 2016, grew slowly until COVID,…
The Real Reason Your Team Won’t Level Up April took over as president of Atlas Surveying after losing her husband, the founder, two years ago. The company had grown from five to 150 people across…
Why People Feel Guilty About Making Money After nearly 20 years of coaching business owners—many of them making millions—Dave Ramsey and head coach John Felkins noticed something surprising: a lot…
The 3 Keys to Stay Hyperfocused on Your Business A show pig once sold for a million dollars. The family business that ran those online auctions—described as "eHarmony meets eBay for pigs"—was…
"Are You Dutch, or Are You Successful?" Steve Koopman runs a $2 million Dutch bakery and bistro in Edmonton with 31 team members. His business is genuinely seasonal: most of the revenue comes in…
The Treadmill Trap: Why Doing Everything Yourself Keeps Your Business Small "I once coached a guy who was a veterinarian cardiologist. He had even performed heart surgery on a polar bear. He was…
When the comptroller of Dixon, Illinois, stole $53 million in tax money over 23 years, the Ramsey Solutions CFO Jeff Williams didn't react with shock. He reacted with a sense of fixability. “You…
Sheila Hupp leads a three-and-a-half-million-dollar towing company from Indiana while the business operates outside Dallas. Her grandmother still owns it. This year, the general manager who had…
14 Minutes of Leadership Fails Most leaders don't set out to be bad bosses. They're overwhelmed, moving fast, trying to push the business forward. But some bosses simply shouldn't be bosses. In…
When Chris Campbell challenged his sales team to collect 100 rejections in a month, offering $500 to whoever got there first, they came back complaining that the game was rigged. Prospects kept…
The Real Reason Your Top Performers Leave In a conversation on the EntreLeadership Podcast, head coach John Felkins tells a story about an auto shop owner who couldn't understand why his best…
The Four-Part Framework to Creating a Bulletproof Business A client of John Felkins had a business model that worked perfectly for years: take out a multi-million dollar loan, buy equipment, and…
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