Episode 117: The Art of Making Things Happen, with Steve Sims

Absolute Advantage Podcast

Steve Sims is the visionary founder of Bluefish: the world’s first luxury concierge company that delivers the highest level of personalized travel, transportation, and cutting-edge entertainment services to corporate executives, celebrities, professional athletes, and other discerning individuals interested in living life to its fullest. He has been invited to speak to MBA students at Harvard (twice), has spoken at the Pentagon, and has been featured in major media all around the world: From The Sunday Times and China Post to The Wall Street Journal.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• Steve’s book “Bluefishing” and how it gives you the tools to make things happen
• The lesson Steve’s dad taught him about why you always get up stronger
• Fire Your Vampires: why you need to get the rid of the naysayers in your life
• Email is not communication: why it’s so easy to misinterpret email and why you should send videos instead
• Ugly works: why you should strive for rawness and transparency instead of perfection
• Why you should try to engage people with as many senses as you can
• Why your team will be thankful when you let bad employees go but won’t tell you they want them gone beforehand
• Delegation: why this is a skill that will keep you from going broke
• Doing what you can to get yourself continually one step closer to your dream

Ways to contact Steve:

• Website: www.stevedsims.com
• Website: www.thebluefish.com
• Book: “Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen”