Eric Termuende is the co-founder of NoW Innovations, a bestselling author, and an international speaker. Eric was recognized as a Top 100 Emerging Innovators under 35 globally by American Express, is a TEDx speaker, and represented Canada at the G20 Summit. He speaks and writes around the world about the future of work and human-centricity in the workplace.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“there was a lot that we had to work through… we certainly had to diversify and look at other industries, sectors and sizes and say okay how do we establish ourselves as leaders and experts in this space? And it was an incredible challenge and it still is. The day we think we have got it figured out is the day that we stop innovating on the day that we stop innovating is the day that we start falling behind… life doesn’t get any easier we just get better at it. And I am working really hard to not get better at it because I am trying to push myself into different areas and spaces and spheres that make me uncomfortable so I can continue to fail, so I can continue to learn”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big Book by Bo BurlinghamFavourite Quote:
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt
Recommended Online Resources:
- Just Luminate founded by Seth Mattison and Kristen Aldridge. Luminate is a media platform and global community of luminaries, leaders and influencers igniting powerful change in the way we work, lead, live, and love
- Fast Company is the world’s leading progressive business media brand, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, and design
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Stop comparing yourself to any of the others. At the end of the day entrepreneurs are trying to make their change in the world to ultimately live a life that they find is worth living, and I don’t want to downplay the importance of that is essentially what we are all doing. We are all running different races, we all have different finish lines and well I think there is a lot of relatability and understanding between entrepreneurs, to compare and to compete against each other is a waste of time knowing that that we are playing different games.”…[Listen for More]
More About Eric Termuende:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You once told me You wanted to find Yourself in the world – And I told you to First apply within, To discover the world within you. You once told me You wanted to save The world from all its wars – And I told you to First save yourself From the world, And all the wars You put yourself Through.” Suzy Kassem
Other Quotes From the Chat with Eric Termuende:
- “what I find most fascinating living in this distraction of economy, on average we are checking our phones 85 times a day, we are spending 3 ½ hours a day on our cell phones and nearly 10 hours a day in front of the screen…. Now if anybody’s read Malcolm Gladwell’s tipping point where we talk about 10,000 hours to be a master at anything, whether we believe that number to be true or the research behind it, the fact remains you can pretty much be a master at scrolling through your cell phone if you took 3 ½ hours a day in less than eight years. And I guess the question I would ask is why are you doing that? What are you missing while you are on the devices? So we often talk about how much the new iPhone or Samsung or new Google phone cost but we don’t talk about is the cost of what we are missing while we are on these devices… And when we look at the fact that we are spending 40 minutes a day on average on Facebook or social media it makes it really difficult to be an expert at one thing, to be focusing, to really dive deep into a craft or a hobby or a relationship…”
- “I wish that I had started to invest in myself earlier to acquire some of the skills and perspectives from other people in the industry that I did.”
- “innovation is necessarily purchase of a new technology it’s a shift in mindset”
- “the faster we can fail, the more we can fail forward, the quicker we get to that moving finish line”
- “we all want to feel that we belong, we all want to feel that we matter”
- “people would rather be criticised than ignored” Deepak Chopra
- “continue to build great relationships and the technical skills to get the job done and outsource the rest”
- “even if we are feeling almost ready for it take a dive in the deep end, learn twice as fast and make half as many mistakes”
- “the beauty of entrepreneurship is we all get to design a life that makes us happy and fulfilled and it doesn’t have to be a giant to do it”
- “history might not repeat itself but it rhymes”
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