Tres Roeder is the founder and president of Roeder Consulting, a Cleveland-based project and change management firm with a distinguished list of Fortune 500 clients . Roeder Consulting is a four-time winner of the Weatherhead 100 Award, marking it as one of the fastest growing small businesses in its region.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“so the first challenge I had they didn’t know how much work I had personally done because I was part of a larger firm and I was fairly junior in that firm so they saw the work that firm was doing but they didn’t know that I had generated that spreadsheet that they were looking at in their senior team meetings, they didn’t know that I had come up with the framework that they were using to analyse the situation. My first challenge was explaining to them, my would be client, that I had been involved in a lot of this work that was happening. The second challenge which is something you hear all the time from people who are in the professional services business is how do you know how much to charge for your services?”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon HillFavourite Quote:
“We must learn to work with people as they are … since we can’t have them as we wish.” George Washington
Recommended Online Resources:
- The Enterprisers Project – A CIO community powered resource about how to drive innovation in the enterprise
- Harvard Business Review – Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world s best business and management experts
- Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, including high performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Listen to that little voice. There are always going to be doubters even if you have been doing it for 17 years, there are always going to be people who are going to help you so you can’t have the external world tell you who you are or how to think about yourself that needs to come from within. So if you are to be successful, and by successful I mean not just having a business that is going to survive and is going to make some money, and mean being happy and that, thriving in it, enjoying it. If you are going to be successful then it’s going to come from listening to that voice”…[Listen for More]
More About Tres Roeder:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“They have their opinions, but we have the answers.” Anthony Liccione
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tres Roeder:
- “implementation is a very different skill to strategy formulation”
- “when I started this business it was with the goal of helping organisations take their ideas and turn them into reality”
- “are you taking your ideas and making them happen?”
- “the Hawthorne effect: what we know is that when you shine the spotlight of management on something it is going to change behaviour”
- “start putting in place processes, software in some cases, training, a language, a culture that is sustainable”
- “the ability to sell is going to help you no matter what you do. And particularly if you become an entrepreneur you are selling your business no matter what kind of business you end up starting. You are going to need to sell the business to your clients, to the doubters, to a variety of different stakeholders, so any kind of sales experience you can have is going to be helpful”
- “it really comes down to grit and persistence”
- “entrepreneurs shouldn’t be thinking can I do it the mindset should be how can I do it
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