Rick Miller is an unconventional turnaround specialist, a servant leader, and a go-to Chief. He is also a trusted confidant, an author, a speaker, and sustainable growth expert. Rick has served in roles including President or CEO in Fortune 10, Fortune 30, startup, and non-profit companies.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Rick’s Dad
When business started difficulties overcame:
“you kind of wonder if you can pull it off. You are facing a situation that’s new every time and yeah you have got some things that you can rely on but we all have doubts when we start, we have surprises that are thrown in our way… The question is how you can kind of stay even keel and just try to bring you’re ‘A’ game every day for whatever you are going to face that day”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success Book by Adam Grant
- Thinking, Fast and Slow Book by Daniel Kahneman
Favourite Quote:
“watch your thoughts they become your words, watch your words they become your actions, watch your actions they become your habits, watch your habits they become your character, watch your character it will become your destiny”
Recommended Online Resources:
- LinkedIn – LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Google – Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“entrepreneurs are unique. I would suggest to every entrepreneur take time to figure out where you stand and once you figure out where you stand take one, take a stand, take a stand for what you think is important, build your own voice… find a quiet time to hear your own voice and build your own compass. Kind of figure out what you’re North South East West is, work hard but figure out when you work hard you want to go in your direction not the direction that somebody else is giving you. And I think if entrepreneurs do that, they build their own compass I think there’s a lot of success they can have”…[Listen for More]
More About Rick Miller:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“When we go all in, we find the answers. They’re in us.” Kamal Ravikant
Other Quotes From the Chat with Rick Miller:
- “we create when we create internally and that leads to external creativity. And when I say creativity I define that as the ability to manifest the future and actually control your destiny”
- “one of the things that is so important is to remind people what they already know and what they are doing right”
- “the challenge of a leader is to bring the sole of a small company into the body of a big one”
- “if I had to do it over again I probably would have asked more questions”
- “there is always people who are willing to give you help you ask them”
- “we need to know ourselves well enough to know when we have hit that wonderful word enough”
- “business is about relationships. Very seldom can you be successful without understanding relationships. Relationships are all about people”
- “knowing what I know now I would ask more questions because there is so many people out there willing to help. You can ask questions of people that you know. Obviously the technology is able to help you. Just put open-ended questions in its amazing how many people are willing to help, so just ask.”
- “part of the success of any entrepreneur is understanding what we bring as individuals. I am not like you, you are not like me, we are going to take different approaches. I think self-understanding frankly is a little understood strength that some people have. And I think it’s the route of the success of a lot of people”
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