Ep 024: Optimizing Your Business w/ Howard Shore

Ep 024: Optimizing Your Business w/ Howard Shore

On the show today we are joined by Howard Shore of Activate Group Inc and Author of Leader Launchpad. We discussed intangible values that are important to businesses, the importance of soft skills and how being either over structured or under structured in your business can hinder your growth and more!

What We Talk About

  • About Howard and Activate Group
  • The Biggest Hurdle For Any Sized Company 
  • Consulting Process
  • Motivating Your Team
  • Mindsets That Cause Lack Of Engagement
  • Your Ego is Not Your Amigo 
  • When To Seek Mentorship
  • Marketing
  • How to Reach Howard

Biggest Takeaways

  1. You Need to Master the Soft Skills, Master the People Skills 
  2. Work Smarter, Not Harder. You don’t need to work 100+ hours to become successful
  3. Hiring out will reduce your profit margin but will multiply your business success

Find our Guest

Guest Book Recommendations

In The Leader Launchpad, growth expert and master business accelerator Howard M. Shore offers an actionable five-step plan to help leaders feel in control of their professional destiny. Packed with practical information, The Leader Launchpad includes profit-actualizing and scale-enhancing systems for: Identify mindsets that are essential to creating a great company
• Recognize the necessary steps to increase employee engagement
>• Develop a strategy that leads to faster growth and higher profitability
• Align everyone to fewer priorities that will greatly impact results
• Ensure the right people are in the right seats and are doing the right thing
• Build a culture of accountability

Engaging and compelling, The Leader Launchpad is a must-read for any leadership team looking to create a massively successful and enjoyable business.

Leaders at Google for over a decade, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle experienced firsthand how the man fondly known as Coach Bill built trusting relationships, fostered personal growth—even in those at the pinnacle of their careers—inspired courage, and identified and resolved simmering tensions that inevitably arise in fast-moving environments. To honor their mentor and inspire and teach future generations, they have codified his wisdom in this essential guide.


Based on interviews with over eighty people who knew and loved Bill Campbell, Trillion Dollar Coach explains the Coach’s principles and illustrates them with stories from the many great people and companies with which he worked. The result is a blueprint for forward-thinking business leaders and managers that will help them create higher performing and faster moving cultures, teams, and companies.

Based on a study of 170 top contributors, Wiseman identifies the mindsets that prevent otherwise smart, capable people from contributing to their full potential and the five practices that differentiate Impact Players:

  • While others do their job, Impact Players figure out the real job to be done. 
  • While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.
  • While others escalate problems, Impact Players move things across the finish line.
  • While others attempt to minimize change, Impact Players are learning and adapting to change. 
  • While others add to the load, the Impact Players make heavy demands feel lighter.

Wiseman makes clear that these practices—and the right mindset—can help any employee contribute at their fullest and shows leaders how they can raise the level of play for everyone on the team. Impact Players is your playbook for the new workplace.

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About Your Host

Rico Garcia is a husband and father to two young boys and the host of Restoration Domination as well as the founder of EcoTek Pro and owner of a private marketing firm for contractors, Alpha Media Agency.

About the Show

The Restoration Domination Podcast with your host Rico Garcia. A show sharing information, tactics, business strategies, experiences, for the Restoration industry. Solo shows and interviews with some of the top industry leaders to help your business move up to the next level.

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