
Chris Hallberg Discusses Creating A Competitive Advantage In Your Company By Recruiting And Hiring Elite Military Veterans
Success Profiles RadioShow Notes
Chris Hallberg was this week’s guest on Success Profiles Radio. He is known as “The Business Sergeant” and is a military veteran who build a sold a company at an 8x multiple during the Great Recession while competitors folded around him. He is also an early EOS implementer who has coached over 100+ leadership teams, and his clients have earned 200+ “Best Places To Work” awards. Inc Magazine named him a Top 10 Global Leadership & Management Expert alongside names like John Maxwell and Seth Godin.
We discussed the importance of loving to do hard things, what makes military veterans a great fit for companies that have openings, how his company recruits and places elite military personnel with growing companies, and his free Business Sergeant Academy and community for veterans to network.
In addition, we talked about his definition of a great corporate culture, patterns he has noticed in companies that scale versus ones that don’t, and the importance of having the right people in the right seats.
Finally, we discussed advice he would give to founders who have become the bottleneck in their company, the value of gratitude, and the most influential books that have shaped his leadership career.
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