Metronomics

One United System to Grow Up Your Team, Company, and Life

Shannon Susko

• Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781544521282
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Strategy
• Index: Business

As a business leader, you've read dozens of books by the top thought leaders, learning from their research, principles, and tools. Each book dives deep into a specific area of expertise-strategy, execution, cash, people, culture, and leadership. All share powerful concepts on what to do to grow your business. But how do you efficiently unite these tools into a regimen that works for not just one specific area of your business, but for your entire team, company, and life?

Metronomics unites top business thought leadership with over twenty years of proven practical experience. The outcome is a prescriptive progressive growth system for every business. In this book, you'll learn how to build a high-performing business team that achieves superior results with ease, speed, and confidence. You'll learn the practical progression that ensures your team is fiercely connected to your strategic execution system. No matter what level you and your team are at right now, Metronomics will meet you where you are-and grow with you to the next level and beyond.

The best-kept business secret for the past twenty years, Metronomics will allow your company to win your business Olympics every year, and as a leader, it will set you free.

Metronomics

One United System to Grow Up Your Team, Company, and Life

Shannon Byrne Susko

copyright © 2021 shannon byrne susko

All rights reserved.

metronomics

One United System to Grow Up Your Team, Company, and Life

isbn 978-1-5445-2130-5 Hardcover

isbn 978-1-5445-2129-9 Paperback

isbn 978-1-5445-2128-2 Ebook

isbn 978-1-5445-2131-2 Audiobook

“When you start something, you finish it, and you finish strong!”

In memory of my Mom, Helen Sylvia Byrne, known to many as “Dander”, who was a great example of commitment, discipline, determination, dedication, consistent, practical, efficient, and systematic. Metronomics is founded on all of these behaviors for business and life! Thank you, Mom, for showing me the way. My mother was a force. A force I miss every day!

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Goals, Plans…Reality!

Chapter 2. Gut It Out: The Kick-Off

Chapter 3. Year 1: The Foundation Year

Chapter 4. Year 2: The Momentum Year

Chapter 5. Year 3: The Compounding Year

Chapter 6. Trust the System

Chapter 7. Metronomics: Great Company and Great Life

Reading List

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Notes

Introduction

Think back to every single business book you’ve ever read in an effort to become a better leader. Count them up.

I’m talking about everything—the big to the small. From Good to Great and The Five Temptations of a CEO to the lesser-known titles you often see recommended in your mastermind groups and business networks.

I’d be willing to bet that the final count of books you’ve read is in the dozens. Perhaps it even breaks into 3 figures. You’ve read them all. As any good business leader does, you’ve committed yourself to learning, to the constant pursuit of knowledge that you can use to strengthen your company—and your own professional game as a CEO or member of a leadership team.

You’ve put in the work.

So why does your business still feel like a struggle?

It’s not a problem with the books, that’s for sure. The books you read are fantastic. Each time you learn a new concept, system, or framework, you’re fired up and ready to go implement it in your organization. You even give the book to your fellow business leaders so that they can align to the new “thing” you’re all going to put into action to scale, grow, and reach success faster.

You have all the information you could ever need. So why does it feel like it never truly gets a foothold in your business? Why is making all these incredible ideas a reality so hard?

The answer does not lie in the “what” but in the “how.” As a CEO or leader of your first startup early-stage, or a seasoned 20-year Fortune 500 CEO, you have learned “what” to do but have little step-by-step guidance on the “how” to implement the “what” with your team.

Nothing ever seems to connect.

You have a team and a plan. But they do not connect.

The same is true of thought leadership. You’ve read every great book the business world has to offer, and the ideas are great but separated. They’re not connected.

How do you pull them all together into one connected system that will work for you, your team, and your business? How do you unify every tried-and-true business framework, glue them together, and create and align a repeatable, structured, strategic execution process for your whole business?

The answer is this book. The answer is Metronomics.

I Was a Desperate CEO

Even though you’re experiencing these struggles, you probably don’t think of yourself as desperate. I know I didn’t. It was only after I developed Metronomics to pull myself out of burnout and overwork, and saw how much freedom I could truly have in my life as a CEO, that I realized how desperate things had been. I coined the term Desperate CEO to describe the place business leaders find themselves when they’ve read every book, tried every method, and still can’t get any momentum going in their business.

When I started my first company, Paradata, things didn’t start in the Desperate CEO zone. My co-founders and I were in our late twenties. We had tons of energy, optimism, and drive. We had discovered a problem in the world for which we had a unique solution, and we were venture-funded from day two of starting up our business. We had a great global growth opportunity. I was a super-young CEO, and I had gone from begging for money to the phone ringing off the hook for customers who wanted to buy from us.

But while we had all that energy and excitement in spades and were thrilled with our chance for growth, we had no idea how to grow the business up. We started putting in extremely long hours, grinding it out, working harder, like it was a badge of honor. Cool! With all that extra effort, all the time away from our families and friends, the endless hours spent working and not living the play-hard life we had all envisioned, we were killing ourselves.

And as a result, the only real “grind” was our growth as it damn near came to a halt.

Like you’ve probably done from the moment you became a CEO or leader, I started reading obsessively. I read the books of all the most respected and renowned business thought leaders. I attended their workshops and conferences like a rock-band groupie, trying to find them wherever they were and showing up whenever possible. I read four books a week for 24 months straight at one point—taking in a ridiculous amount of data and information—hoping to find some kind of repeatable system, a silver bullet, that we could implement to start taking full advantage of our opportunity and achieve the goals our investors expected.

And I couldn’t find it. There was no one system.

It was unbelievable. With all the successful businesses in the world, no on...

Table of contents

• Introduction