145: How Doing Nothing Can Help Your Business Be Successful w/ Rob Dube

This may sound crazy at first, but humor me if you will. Doing nothing will help your business. That’s right. Take a step back, start meditating, and don’t get so caught up in that busy calendar of yours. As my guest on this episode is about to tell you, it will make you a better business owner and help your company succeed.

Rob Dube is the president and co-founder of imageOne, one of Forbes’ best small companies in 2017. He is also the author of Do Nothing, and contributor to such prestigious publications as Forbes, Thrive Global, and Octane Magazine.

In this week’s episode, Rob shares some great advice for small business owners. By valuing the people he works with, he has built a strong company culture that encourages his employees to best serve their customers.

Rob recounts the story of his business’ evolution and his realization that a bigger company is not always better. Throughout all this, Rob discovered better styles of leadership and organization for his company that have allowed it to weather the ups and downs of business and made it the success that it is today.

Are there ways that you include your team members in determining your company’s mission? Let’s talk about it in the comments on the episode page!

In this episode

How putting a focus on the people in your company will lead to great things for your customers
Realizing the advantages that a small company has over a large one
The challenges of top-down leadership versus collaboration
Letting go of control so that you can relax and focus on what’s really important for you and your business
Involving everyone in the company when it comes to setting your business’ vision for the future
How meditation and “doing nothing” will help you be fully present for your company

Quotes

“We found as we went along that people were really the key to what was making great things happen at the company. We had more fun caring about the totality of the team members’ lives than looking at the, as a vehicle to making more money.“ [8:42]

“We started to see how amazingly smart and talented our team was and that the decisions really didn’t need to be made by us. They all knew the right things to do every single time.” [18:38]

“When people understand things they make better decisions because they are educated. You can’t make good decisions if you don’t understand the full picture.” [24:23]

“Often we may not see eye to eye with things with our team members. It’s received much easier when you feel heard and when you feel like all that energy was being given to you.” [39:11]

“To know what something feels like versus knowing it in your head is a big difference. That allows you to slow yourself to pause between stimulus and response. In that moment we get to choose.” [45:40]