Walt Brown, also known as "Uncle Walt," is a Master Business Operating System Mechanic and Head Coach who focuses on the 7 Critical Needs, organizational health, cash flow and risk mitigation. Walt is also BITE7's Founder.
Accountable
Over the course of the past 13 years, I’ve interacted with nearly 200 business owners who had questions about optimizing employee engagement within their organizations. It’s not that the organizations were in desperate need of help. On the contrary, some of these businesses were performing very well, and
Developed
BITE7 is partially built on the presumption that employee buy-in needs to occur on an ongoing basis. Having a single discussion with your workers and having them agree that they belong in your organization is a great start, but things are never static in business, and all of the elements
Measured
Within BITE7, the matter of employees embracing the ways in which they are measured is an important one. Yet, there are some interesting examples from outside the world of business that shine a spotlight on how success measurements can vary from organization to organization, and why it is essential for
Heard
The Coronavirus pandemic is having a crippling effect on many business organizations throughout the world. Within BITE7, perhaps the area most likely to be compromised by the havoc caused by the spread of this virus and its stifling effect on commerce is the ability for your employees to maintain a
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There is a scene from the film "We Are Marshall" that perfectly conveys the importance of verbal communication if you truly wish to be heard and understood and to have the full significance of your statements appreciated. On November 14, 1970, the plane carrying the Marshall University football
Balanced
As an essential component of the 7 Question - 7 Promise Framework that I put together to help business owners, I advise employers to ask their employees the essential question “Do I have balance?” and I considered it essential for business owners to attain and maintain a “Yes” answer from
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Dear Clients and Friends, I wish I were not writing this, I am cognizant of the situations and extremes I may be writing to and I pray for the best as soon as possible. We are in this together, and I want to take some time to share some guidance
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In the pages of Attract or Repel, I laid out the BITE7 Framework, which allows everyone within your company to align themselves with your mission by deciding if they can answer “yes” to questions of belonging, belief, accountability, measurement, communication, development and balance. The ultimate benefit of this process is
Believe
When it comes to questions about why human beings are present on Earth, a wide array of belief systems have been developed over several millennia by different individuals, groups, and cultures in an effort to produce satisfactory answers to those questions. Yet, when it comes to matters of business, arriving
Heard
If you visit the website of the Executive Education department of several major universities and look at the class listings, there is a very good chance you’ll find an offering for courses promising to educate you in perfecting your “Executive Presence.” As I write, there is an Executive Presence
![[Podcast Recap] The Influential Recruiter - Episode 23: The Patient Organization w/ Walt Brown](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3415986/Influential_Recruiter_podcast_graphic-01.jpg)
Podcast Recaps
Walt Brown is introduced by host Darrell James for Episode 23 of The Influential Recruiter. Darrell opens the show by asking Walt why he wrote his book, The Patient Organization. Walt explains the belief that an organization is a human-derived fiction that is only given meaning and power by those
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The idea of developing your employees can lead you into tricky territory if you’re a business owner. On the one hand, there are reasons to not take formal steps to develop your employees that might make logical sense on a very superficial level. After all, you probably have employees