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John Helbrick

CEO, entrepreneur, investor, and author of "Get to CEO"; executive coach at Hilbrich Group with nearly 30 years of leadership experience.

Jun 18, 2026

11:58
Really Bad Screw-Ups.
12:01
You know what? I would say that probably...
12:07
the place where I made the most mistakes and it took me a while to learn from them because I felt like the direction I wanted to go or the thing I wanted to do, I was so sure that it was gonna work, is when I took things for granted.
12:32
Sometimes I took people for granted, Sometimes I, and in people, that they would see things the same way I did.
12:45
Right? And I made assumptions.
12:48
And I didn't spend any time verifying the assumptions.
12:52
So sometimes I was with clients.

21 MINS LATER

33:54
buildings.

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