855. Is Your Team Telling You the Truth?

855. Is Your Team Telling You the Truth?

July 9, 2026 · 8 min

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Brian Gubernick discusses the gap between the perceived and actual operations of a business and offers strategies to bridge it.

Are you running the business you think you're running — or the version your team has learned to show you? In this episode, Brian breaks down "The Two-Organizations Problem," a framework from business executive Irina Wolpert, and translates it for small business owners. Every business is really two businesses: the one in your reports and the one your people live every day. Brian covers the three forces that quietly widen the gap between them — filtering, incentives, and time — and shares three practical moves to close it, including one uncomfortable question you should ask your team this week. -- Get on the list to receive Brian's monthly newsletter: https://nodaysoff.com/subscribe/ Tune in to this podcast every weekday morning for 10 minutes or less as Brian shares lessons and stories about how to make positive changes in your life and business, one day at a time. That's what the "No Days Off" movement is all about. The objective is to spend focused time each day improving in some small way. Each episode presents questions to contemplate, concepts to understand, and actions to take in Business & Leadership, Wealth & Finances, Personal Development & Growth Time Management, Mindset…

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