Andrew John Harrison

A few years ago, I worked with a highly successful CEO. On paper, he had everything… wealth, recognition, family, freedom. Yet in conversation he admitted, “I just can’t enjoy it. I feel guilty when I buy things for myself. I push away compliments. Even when opportunities come my way, I find reasons to say no.”

It wasn’t that he didn’t have things. He couldn’t let himself have them.

This is the hidden barrier many of us face. We say we want love, money, peace, freedom, or recognition. But when it actually shows up… we resist. We downplay the compliment. We reject the gift. We self-sabotage the opportunity.

That invisible force has a name: Havingness.

Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility

By Andrew John Harrison

On September 6, 2025

In Business & Entrepreneurship

Here’s the full text from the Slides:

We Seek Excellence

Our culture focuses on helping us achieve excellence.

Seven Aspects of Our Culture

Values are what we value
High performance
Freedom & responsibility
Context, not control
Highly aligned, loosely coupled
Pay top of market
Promotions & development

Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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The Changing World Order

By Andrew John Harrison

On August 21, 2025

In Money & Wealth

This video by Ray Dalio is based on the book: The Changing World Order.

Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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Beyond Entrepreneurship Summary

By Andrew John Harrison

On August 14, 2025

In Leadership & Influence

BUILD A BUSINESS THAT LASTS

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Since 1992, Jim Collins’ work has guided our development of the Goldzone Organization and OPTIMA Zones.

Save time by reading the best parts in under 10 minutes…

We just released a new summary of Jim Collins and Bill Lazier’s timeless classic:

Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company.

• What makes companies endure
• Why Reed Hastings (Netflix) memorized the first 86 pages
• How we evolved Level 5 Leadership into our own Level 7 Leadership model
• Practical takeaways you can apply immediately to grow your business

This is required reading for all Brand CoLabs members, and we’re giving it away, free.

Download the FREE Beyond Entrepreneurship Book Summary.

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Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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The Secret to Boosting Productivity: Complete Your Cycles of Action

By Andrew John Harrison

On August 13, 2025

In Leadership & Influence

Most people underestimate the power of communication — and how it can spiral us up or drag us down.

It’s not just about the words we speak or hear. Communication is the exchange of ideas, knowledge, emotion, attention, and interest.

But here’s the problem:

We start things… and don’t finish them.

These incomplete cycles of action quietly drain our energy, scatter our focus, and keep us from being fully present.

Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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The Mindset Continuum

By Andrew John Harrison

On August 1, 2025

In Leadership & Influence

Click on image to enlarge.

By James Anderson.

Based on the work of Carol Dweck.

Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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The Curse of Knowledge

By Andrew John Harrison

On September 13, 2024

In Leadership & Influence

The “curse of knowledge” is a Cognitive Bias where we learn something and have difficulty remembering what it was like not to know it!

As an engineer, I am used to absorbing technical information and understanding complex problems. Early in my career, I used to assume that everyone could do the same thing.

It was a rude shock to learn that many people struggle to grasp technical and complex information and that we can add value by making it simple.

Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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Strategy vs Tactics

By Andrew John Harrison

On September 5, 2024

In Leadership & Influence

Strategy vs tactics used to frustrate and confuse me until Jay Abraham explained it.

Jay helps business owners shift their mindsets to become more strategic thinkers and use innovation and marketing to grow their businesses.

Most of us struggle to understand the difference!

Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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Forgiveness Process

By Andrew John Harrison

On October 24, 2023

In Leadership & Influence

I wrote this process in my journal at 3:08 a.m. on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. You are welcome to use this to release yourself!

BEGIN

I release you from my life.

I allow you to move on from me.

Your lesson is your lesson. I fully accept my lesson, my creation.

I am not a victim. I am a co-creator.

I have at least 50% cause. I attracted you. You could not exist without me.

I allow myself to heal. I allow myself to flow. As I free myself, I also free you. I allow and release you to your own feelings, results, and lessons.

I surrender to universal and unconditional love.

Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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Personal finance: How to save, spend, and think rationally about money

By Andrew John Harrison

On June 13, 2023

In Money & Wealth

Whether you have a lot of money or debt, it matters how you handle your finances. A crucial step in saving is to reassess your relationship with money and learn to adopt a broader, more logical point of view. In this video, social innovator and activist Vicki Robin, psychologist Daniel Kahneman, Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton, and author Bruce Feiler offer advice on achieving financial independence, learning to control your emotions, spending smarter, and teaching children about money. It all starts with education and understanding.

The more you know about how money works, the better you will be at avoiding mistakes and the easier it will be to take control of your financial circumstances.

Check Vicki Robin’s latest book, Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, at https://a.co/d/23a2Pjv

Andrew John Harrison

Leadership Advocate and Founder @ Goldzone Group. I help leaders to master the new rules of leadership for the new economy. Over the past 30 years, I have visited more than 500 cities in 54 countries to explore, learn from, and help many of the world’s leading companies, leaders, and luminaries in science, technology, health, finance, and entrepreneurship.

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The Art of Havingness: Expanding Your Capacity to Receive

Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility

We Seek Excellence

Seven Aspects of Our Culture

The Changing World Order

Beyond Entrepreneurship Summary

Download the FREE Beyond Entrepreneurship Book Summary.

The Secret to Boosting Productivity: Complete Your Cycles of Action

The Mindset Continuum

The Curse of Knowledge

Strategy vs Tactics

Forgiveness Process

Personal finance: How to save, spend, and think rationally about money