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Dave Turano is the President of JCE Consulting, helping organizations improve leadership, communication, and sales, and the host of Cut Through the Noise Podcast. We talk about the habits of highly successful businesses, the overlooked benefits of daily standup meetings, and why great leaders don’t tolerate mediocrity.
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Build Trust with Dave Turano
Our guest is Dave Turano, the president of JCE Consulting, providing coaching and training services to organizations that want to improve effectiveness in leadership, communication, and sales. Dave is the host of the Cut Through the Noise podcast, where he peeks behind headlines and current events. So Dave, welcome to the show.
Steve, thanks for having me. You've got the tables turned on me this week.
That's right. I visited your show a few weeks ago, and now it's my chance to ask you some penetrating questions and find out about your thought about management blueprints and generally, you know, helping leaderships and helping teams get much healthier. So let's start with your journey. So what's been your entrepreneurial journey and what made you decide to go on your own and how's it going?
Well, it's going well. That's a good question to get started. It's going well. It's been eight years this fall. I'll be out on my own. I started JCE Consulting, which is JCE stands for the names of my kids, Jack, Chris, and Emma. And the journey, I wish I could say I had a master plan, Steve. I didn't. I can just say that over the course of my career, as the years went by, I started to become antsy, you know, and I got to the point in my life and within the jobs that I had where I just wanted to do things my own way.
I got tired of kind of listening to other people. And so finally, and it was getting worse and worse and worse to the point where I was almost kind of unemployable. I just wanted to do things my own way. I had no choice but to just finally say, put up or shut up and do it. And so that's what I did. And in 2013, I took the plunge and I'm still here. So it's been a great ride.
That's awesome. Well, you know, I hear this unemployable thing often I certainly feel like that once you taste the freedom of entrepreneurship, however challenging it is often You don't want to go back, right?
Never. I get the chance to talk to so many really really good people smart people who have great jobs And a lot of them, you know, a lot of them are very happy in their jobs, but there are a good percentage of them that aren't. And they're completely, for lack of a better phrase, they're trapped by the paycheck, or they're imprisoned by the idea that they have to report or work for somebody else. And it's hard to get people to consider that being independent is actually liberating. And it's not as scary as it seems before you do it. So I'm sure you probably had those same feelings before you got started too.
I actually, I could, yeah, absolutely. So I felt totally trapped and, you know, I tried to rationalize this idea of the intrapreneurship that it's a thing, that it's possible to be entrepreneurial inside an organization until I got the rug pulled out from under me one day and I realized that I just had a job and I had the team, you know, there was a team, there was kind of a business that we were building, but it I could just be pushed out and someone else took over from me.
So definitely, definitely relate to that. So let's talk a little bit about how you built JC Consulting and my favorite topic, management blueprints. So any management blueprints such as e-myth, scaling up, great game of business, have you used any such blueprints or any frameworks or was there a business, Brook, that particularly inspired you and kind of implemented some of the concepts? Please talk to me about that.
Well, you're talking to somebody who really didn't do any reading through high school. So I would do anything not to read a book as a kid.