# Lee Benson
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lee benson is a sportswriter and columnist for the Deseret News. He has covered at least nine Olympic Games for the paper and has written columns on Mormon issues. He has also co-authored a book with James W. Parkinson about American prisoners of war of the Japanese during World War II and their attempts to obtain reparations.
The Scarcest Resource on Earth Isn't Time or Money
Lee Benson has built eight companies from scratch. In this solo episode, he shares the framework that's run through all of them: holistic value creation, built on three buckets, material, emotional energy, and connectedness.
His core argument is that emotional energy is the scarcest commodity on th…
Your Most Important Number with Lee Benson
Lee Benson's boss told him to shut the company down. Instead, he took on six hundred thousand dollars in debt and two employees he couldn't afford to pay. He almost went bankrupt fifteen times in that first year. Twenty-three years later, he sold Able Aerospace to Textron Aviation for well north of…
What I Do Instead of Performance Reviews
Fewer than 1 in 10 performance reviews end with both people walking away glad it happened. Lee Benson stopped running them years ago.
In this episode, Lee breaks down the performance snapshot, the replacement he's used across eight companies: three clear goals per person, expectations defined from …
TLP526: The Surprising Link Between Great Parents and Great Leaders
Lee Benson, CEO of Execute to Win and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of "Your Most Important Number," and "Value Creation Family," believes families and organizations have something in common: they're perfectly designed to produce the results they get. In this conversation, Lee explains why…
How to Get Successful People to Want to Help You with Chris Widener
What makes successful people want to help you? Chris Widener learned that it starts with a different question: “How can I help you?”
In this episode of Show Your Value, Lee Benson sits down with the bestselling author and speaker who worked alongside Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar and John Maxwell.
Chris sha…
Why Everyone In Your Team Should Own a Number — Lee Benson
Lee Benson grew an aerospace business from three people and $360,000 in sales to over 500 employees and a nine figure exit. When he sold it, he got a 21.6x multiple of EBITDA in an industry where 8x was considered strong.
Jason Marc Campbell sits down with Lee Benson, CEO of Execute to Win and Wall…
Betting My House On The Deal Everyone Said Would Fail
Lee Benson was kicked out of his house his senior year of high school. He was already working full-time just to pay rent and survive. Between couch surfing, cooking, and grinding as a band guitarist, he decided he’d build something that mattered.
Survival meant more than scraping by. Lee talks abou…
Buy Back Years of Growth by Buying a Business
Building the team, systems and customer base your business needs can take years. Could buying another business help you get there faster?
Tom Shipley joins Lee Benson on Show Your Value to explain how he used acquisitions to solve problems he couldn’t afford to fix from scratch, including buying an…
Why Emotional Energy Is the Real X-Factor in Scaling a Business (Not Strategy)
Most founders think strategy is what separates the businesses that scale from the ones that stall. It isn't. Lee Benson built an aerospace maintenance company from zero to over 100 million dollars with no outside investors and sold it for a 21.6x EBITDA multiple, in an industry where an 8x is consi…
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