This content was created by Ryan Deiss. This content was uploaded by Ryan Deiss. This is a YouTube video titled "How to Run a $10M Business in 1 Hour Per Week: Part 6" (created 2025-10-27) featuring a solo, instructional talk on building and using a CEO dashboard (Google Sheets) to run eight-figure businesses. The presenter explains a weekly rhythm: team members manually update metrics every Monday (owners, targets, and R/Y/G status), then hold a meeting to review scores. Guidance covers how to handle green/yellow/red metrics (celebrate green, require a plan for yellow, and a corrective plan for red), the concept of scorecard-based leadership, and how this process drives clarity, accountability, and simplified decision-making.
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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 part six of how to build a CEO dashboard so powerful that you can run eight figure businesses off of a single Google sheet. We pretty much built out all of your CEO dashboard with the metrics, with the owners, with the targets, with the colors. This is how it works effectively in practice, and a lot of our four principles from part two are going to come into play here. Every Monday morning, my team spends the first 30 to 60 minutes of their week updating the dashboard. And they do this manually. That means pulling their numbers, dropping them in, and assigning the color status. Is it red, is it yellow, or is it green? Once everybody's had a chance to input their numbers, then we have a team meeting. And this meeting is important because the conversations that come up in this meeting are what allow you as a leader, to make decisions based on facts, numbers and scores, or while also building accountability and relationships within your team. This is specifically how you're going to guide your team. This one's easy. If a metric is green, we celebrate it and we move on. If it's yellow, the rule is simple. We want to know the plan. What is the plan to get it back to green? And we're going to discuss that as a team. If it's red, then there needs to be a team discussion about how do we get this thing yellow, meaning coming up with a plan to then get it back into the green. This rhythm forces clarity, it forces accountability, and it makes leading simple. You no longer have to have all of the answers. Your job is simply to ask the right questions and to make sure that the owners of each metric know what it takes to turn red metrics yellow and yellow metrics green. This is what I call scorecard based leadership. And while leadership is never easy, it does make it simple. And once you lock it in, you can literally run a $10 million business in about an hour a week.
