From Lawn Mowers To Leadership: Jason Morris On Building High-Performance Teams With Vision And Grit Breakthrough Innovation podcast

From Lawn Mowers to Leadership: Jason Morris on Building High-Performance Teams with Vision and Grit

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In this episode of Breakthrough Innovation, we sit down with Jason Morris, a serial entrepreneur and private equity operator whose journey from childhood side hustles to leading multi-million-dollar turnarounds is nothing short of inspiring. With deep experience across industries—from real estate to aerospace—Jason shares battle-tested strategies on accountability, vision-setting, and why most businesses fail not from lack of ideas, but lack of execution.

Key Lessons Covered in This Episode:

From Hustle to High-Performance:

Hear how Jason’s entrepreneurial path started at age 10 with a lawn mower and evolved into building and fixing companies across multiple sectors.

The Vision + Execution Formula:

Jason reveals his leadership blueprint: set a crystal-clear vision, hire great people, and empower them with accountability—not micromanagement.

Daily KPIs That Drive Results:

Discover how a simple 5-minute morning ritual of reviewing KPIs helped one company grow 9x in just four years.

Culture Isn’t Posters—It’s Process:

Learn how Jason builds cultures of discipline and integrity, not through slogans, but through systems that align everyone from the top down.

Mastering the Art of Turnarounds:

Jason breaks down what it really takes to revive struggling businesses and why your "unique industry" isn’t as unique as you think.

Simplify to Scale:

Too much data can paralyze teams. Jason explains how focusing on just 3-4 key metrics can drive faster, smarter decisions.

Why Listening > Knowing:

Get Jason’s take on leadership humility—why your job is to ask the right questions and listen, not pretend to have all the answers.

Key Takeaways:

✅ Vision without execution is hallucination.

✅ Real leadership is about trust, accountability, and transparency.

✅ Simplicity in metrics leads to clarity and results.

✅ The best operators know how to listen, not just direct.

Links And Resources:

Connect with Jason on LinkedIn to explore his leadership playbook and follow his journey through entrepreneurship and private equity.

LinkedIn: Jason Morris
Websites: wwu.edu/id/ (Company) idsandbox.blogspot.com/ (Blog)

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