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CIA has a concept that they teach us called last man standing. The concept has incredible application to the business world because one of the things that business leaders don’t often invest in is the idea that they might be the last man standing, the last person standing when everybody else quits, when everybody else cracks, when everybody else breaks.
Because CIA is an organization of last resort, it means that when you raise your hand and say yes to a mission, you’re basically saying, I will either succeed with this mission or I will die trying. And when a business leader, especially an entrepreneur, a solopreneur, a young CEO, when they can apply that idea of last man standing to their business practice, they actually find themselves tolerating a lot less garbage and distraction.
All of a sudden, underperforming employees are easy to fire. All of a sudden, it’s worth it to invest in processes and procedures that are repeatable and scalable. You celebrate your high performing people. You give them higher paychecks. You put them on vacation. You give them more praise and more award. And it becomes so much clearer to you who the small fire team is that you wanna operate with rather than all the people who are simply wasting your time and costing you headaches because they’re not dedicated to being one of the last men standing.