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Good morning. Most owners run their business looking backward — this session, a guest who built a $200M company from a single truck shows you how to flip the view. Two minutes. Let’s get into it. — George
Lead through the front window, not the rear-view mirror.
The trap: you think you know your numbers because you review your P&L every month. But a P&L is a scoreboard, not a steering wheel — every line on it was decided weeks ago, by numbers you weren’t watching. Monthly reporting means that 29 days out of 30, course-correction is impossible.
The shift: Anthony Perera took Air Pros from one HVAC truck to $200M in six years, and now operates a $300M portfolio. The first thing he installs in every company he buys isn’t marketing or sales — it’s daily visibility on leading indicators. Not revenue. Revenue is a result. The three or four numbers that cause revenue thirty days from now.
The playbook — Perera’s front-window rule:
- Pick the three numbers that predict next month’s revenue. For a service business: leads in, quotes out, close rate.
- Look at them every morning before 9am — before you open email.
- The two-day rule: any number down two days straight, you call an audible that day. Not at month-end.
The proof: Perera bought a $35M roofing company still dispatching on paper index cards. No new product, no new market — a CRM, daily numbers, and a retail go-to-market unlocked growth the founders couldn’t reach alone. The growth was already in the business. They just couldn’t see it.
“My numbers live in five different places — the CRM, QuickBooks, a spreadsheet my office manager keeps. Do I need to build a dashboard before I can do this?” — a member in Phoenix
No — and waiting for a dashboard is how this dies. The roofing company Perera bought was running $35M on index cards; the tool was never the barrier. A whiteboard and five minutes each morning beats a dashboard you’ll build “next quarter.” Track it by hand for two weeks first — you’ll learn which numbers actually move your business before you automate a single thing.
Tonight, write down the one leading number that best predicts your next 30 days of revenue. Tomorrow, check it before you open email. Then hit reply and tell me your number — the best answers get featured in the room.
“We gotta lead our businesses looking out the front window, not the rear-view mirror.” — Anthony Perera, this session’s guest
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