With over 20 years of manufacturing and operations experience with a focus on Lean Six Sigma and Team Development, Beau Groover is a wealth of information. He has his MBA and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and runs a rapidly growing consulting firm based in Atlanta Georgia.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“really it was probably the mental game. So I was pretty successful in corporate America, I had worked my way up to positions of leadership in a couple of different organisations… and there is a certain security, there is a strength in numbers. I worked for a large multibillion-dollar, multinational company based here in Atlanta for several years and I enjoyed it, I had a great team, it was a great organisation. But I was unfulfilled in that I was at the whims of this giant organisation that was trying to coordinate and get large groups of people to agree. And so for me it was wrestling with that all right so I am trading the security for potentially a more rewarding career and just convincing myself that the best of the time I was smart enough, I was strong enough, I was all those things enough to go try this on my own”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable Book by Patrick M. Lencioni
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) Book by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Book by Patrick M. Lencioni
Favourite Quote:
“no team has ever suffered because its members were strong and capable” Peter Drucker
Recommended Online Resources:
- The Atlanta Business Chronicle – features local business news about Atlanta. They also provide tools to help business grow, network and hire
- Wall Street Journal – online coverage of breaking news and current headlines from the US and around the world. Top stories, photos, videos, detailed analysis and in-depth reporting
- LinkedIn – 500 million+ members. Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“the best feature that you can have is the one that you create for yourselves. And so if you are entering the world of entrepreneurialism imagine the future that you want and then build it. We see cases every day of people who are successful in finding creative ways to solve problems and be innovative with product development and finding a new way to do an old thing. And so if it is what you want and your heart is in it, imagine the future that you want and then go and do the work necessary to make it happen. And then in a year or two or five years you will look back and go wow this is amazing I can’t believe we have accomplished this or I have accomplished this”…[Listen for More]
More About Beau Groover:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“In the book of life, the answers are not in the back!” Charles M. Schulz
Other Quotes From the Chat with Beau Groover:
- “most organisations problems are driven 50% by poor or no communication”
- “we as humans spend a lot of time thinking about what if the worst-case scenario instead of what if the best-case scenario”
- “if you are not working on your network, it doesn’t matter what your position is, it doesn’t matter how successful you are, if you are not working on building and expanding your relationships in your network that will potentially be a miss that will hurt you”
- “I guarantee your parachute will not open if you don’t jump out of the aeroplane”
- “I believe in business if you are not growing you are dying”
- “I think we need to embrace that will to win, that need to compete”
- “whatever the business is that you are in if you don’t wake up every day saying I want to win my business then you might not love being an entrepreneur as you might think”
- “I have got 9000 things that I could do. What is the most important thing that I should do?”
- “if there is something that you want in your business or your personal life or whatever find the resources, do the work, practice and go and get it. And your life will be more fulfilling, more rewarding and I think you will find it will work if you are willing to pursue it”
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