Ryan Deiss, who runs 17 companies in a $200M portfolio, shows how to build a CEO dashboard in Google Sheets to manage a $10M+ business in one hour weekly. The dashboard uses four principles: keep it simple, track weekly, make it manual, and use stoplights to replace firefighting with fact-based decisions.
I run 17 companies inside a $200 million portfolio and I see two to $5 million companies go to $10 to $20 million companies after implementing just one thing they can build in just half a day. This is part one of how to build a CEO Dashboard so powerful that you can manage your entire business from one Google sheet. There are four guiding principles that you need to know in order to build the best possible dashboard. Keep it simple, track it weekly, make it manual, and keep stoplights. If you're firefighting in Slack an email, arguing with your teammates about feelings instead of facts, or running a business that relies on your heroics to scale, I'm putting this out on the Internet just for you. This is where you start to actually think like a real CEO. I'll break down the four principles in part two. Stay tuned.
