The Daily Huddle with Brian Scudamore and the 1-800-Got-Junk team.

1-800-GOT-JUNK can you imagin wall

Notes From The Event

Shaun Frankson and David Katz from Nero Global Tracking were in attendance for the 1-800-GOT-CULTURE EO Vancouver event at the “Juntion” (1-800-GOT-JUNK’S Vancouver office.)

Some key notes from Brian Scudamore speech at the event included:

The power of the “can you imagine wall” was incredible. Many ‘dream ideas’ became a reality once they put them in writing, put it up on the wall for all to see, and figured out how to make them happen. Some success stories include getting featured on Oprah (they have done this a couple times now) and getting their name put on the side of a Starbucks Cup (they were put on 10 million cups for free, just by providing a great quote).

The painted picture vision of what 1-800-GOT-JUNK was working towards and believed they could achieve became a huge tool for recruiting. All new recruits must buy into the vision with enthusiasm, or else they just aren’t the right person for this kind of company.

Painted Picture for 1-800-GOT-JUNK

It took some time to develop the strong corporate culture you read about today. In fact at one point Brian had to completely restaff and hire only on culture fits.”I will never compromise on the quality of people.” A gut feeling on the wrong person is almost always correct. He learned the hard way that he needed to be “slow to hire, quick to fire”.

Brian discussed the amazing reward that came from working together as a team to help each other achieve their own personal bucket list. Each employee was tasked to write out 101 life goals in 20 minutes. They were challenged to share the list with everyone in the office, and hold each other accountable for achieving those goals.

1 800 GOT JUNK "It's all about people" Moto

Brian believes strongly that “It’s all about the people” and he really backs that up with his actions.

“You build a great company by building great people”

Great corporate values help you stay together and stay tight.

The 1-800-GOT-JUNK core values are an acronym of PIPE
Passion
Integrity
Professionalism
Empathy

“The Ultimate Leadership is Vision”

All quotes above were from the mouth of 1-800-GOT-JUNK founder Brian Scudamore.

I strongly recommend a tour of 1-800-GOT-JUNK in Vancouver. The office is nothing but motivating and inspiring.

This article was written by:

Shaun Frankson
VP of Business Development & Student of Knowledge

Nero Global Tracking (For more business advice & articles like this, check out our blog)

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