Welcome to another episode of The HERO Show. I am your host Richard Matthews, (@AKATheAlchemist) and you are listening to episode 210 with Kurt Uhlir – Helping Companies Go Through The Hyper-Growth Phase.Kurt Uhlir is a globally-recognized marketer, operator, and speaker. He’s built and run businesses from start-up to over $500M annual revenue, assembled teams across six continents, been part of the small team leading an IPO ($880M), and participated in dozens of acquisitions.Here’s just a taste of what we talked about today:Cultivating Ideas as a SuperpowerKurt’s superpower has been finding and cultivating ideas from people who he least likely expects.An example is, that they started 25 internal companies within that company and about half of the ideas did not come from their product teams or their innovation team. They mostly came from somebody like their front desk office manager.Oftentimes there are people in companies that are not from a position level and are often disregarded. From an expertise level perspective, people don't look for solutions in other areas of the company. Kurt had this unique ability to always go outside of the core expert areas and find unique solutions that existed within the company and teams.Passionate About PeopleKurt’s passion for people is the driving force in his business.  He thinks that one of the reasons he has been successful in so many different industries is because he is open to trying new things.He goes on and says, “When your passion is people and you're fighting for that, you can go to any industry and attack it and be good”.Kurt has been just as happy helping people with their passion and goals because that also helped him figure out if he likes what other people care about. He also mentioned that If you don't know what you’re fighting for find out what somebody else is fighting for and go head over tail in helping them.Other Topics We Covered on the Show:We get to know what Kurt is known for and the particular industry that he serves.Kurt also shares the process to know when a company or a small business is ready for hyper-growth.Then, we talked about Kurt’s origins story. Kurt’s career started with two legal entities when he was 14 from that he had some partnerships along the way which became very successful and then focused on helping companies grow.Not realizing his own needs or other people has been Kurt’s fatal flaw in his business. He overcomes this type of flaw by having a common language.Business owners being comfortable with where they are in their business has been Kurt’s common enemy in his business.Lastly, a principle that Kurt lives his life by is Mission First, People Always.Recommended Tools: TrelloPhysical Note CardsThe HERO ChallengeToday on the show, Kurt Uhlir challenged Don to be a guest on The HERO Show. Kurt thinks that Don is a fantastic person to interview because he has a great entrepreneurial story that’s worth...

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