The episode today is nothing short of awesome. It’s packed with nuggets of wisdom all throughout. We sit down today with a remarkable individual and business owner who’s brought his company to the Inc. 5000 list 10 times. Yep, 10 times! Imagine that. He’s also been named as Executive of the Year in Real Estate for 2019. Of course, successes as huge as these don’t happen overnight (like I’ve repeatedly said). Find out what Kevin Ortner did to make that happen and what he continues to do to ensure stability, scalability, profitability of his business all the while maintaining their culture of people-first. Bring out those pens and notepads and make sure to jot down important pointers that will surely be useful in your own business.
Key Takeaways
- You can’t paint a mural on the wall and hope that everybody will like it.
- Don’t grow just because there’s more money behind it.
- You can’t just write your culture down on a culture planning map and then have that end up being your culture one day.