Move away from the motivation mindset

CEOs and team leaders from Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed start-ups often complain that they have trouble keeping their teams motivated. But what if it's actually not the job of the leaders to motivate their teams? What if team members were responsible for motivating themselves and for bringing their own professional, positive, helpful, best selves to work each day? What might change in companies if teams lived up to this expectation?

With insights drawn from more than 275 CEO interviews, the approaches in The Little Book of Big Scale focus entirely on counterintuitive methods for growing your business. Meet the CEOs who are successfully scaling, see how they’re doing it, and—most importantly—learn why they choose to go against the herd to counterintuitively create scale.

John Hittler shares practices that are effective at every stage of growth, from a small startup to a large company pursuing an IPO. He and the successful CEOs interviewed will teach you how to alter your approach to scaling so you can create and implement a custom scaling plan for your unique organization.

“Now that I know my genius talent, Tuesdays feel like Saturdays.”

There’s a secret superpower embedded in your DNA. Can you name it? It’s your genius talent, the thing you do better than anyone else on earth. You weren’t born knowing what it is—you have to discover it. When you do, work will feel like play, not soul-crushing monotony. Living within your genius means doing what you’re meant to do, rather than worrying about the things you should do only because they’re part of your job description.