Short coaching monologue (YouTube) by Bill Gallagher using a hiking/map 'you are here' metaphor to emphasize assessing current position before setting growth goals. Introduces a five-facet framework for evaluating a business: culture, strategy, operations, story, and finance.
And you want to go hiking, what's the first thing you look for on the map? When you see the trail map, it's the red dot that says, you are here. You are here. Yeah, you are here. Right. And so much of us are concerned about, like, yeah, but where are we hiking to? Like, what does the view look like? Right, right. That's that while we want to be 20 million or we want to be a $250 million company, like, we want, we want that story for ourselves. But what we haven't done is figure out, well, where actually are we on the map? Yeah. And so I think it's a really important process to get real with ourselves. Right. To say, like, actually, where are we? And so in the five facets, we look at culture, strategy, operations, story and finance.
