Mark Perna is the CEO of TFS Results and a genuine, warm and engaging speaker. He has over 20 years experience in coaching educational organizations and businesses on today’s unique intergenerational workforce and the hiring, training and retention of the newest generations. Mark makes companies more profitable, competitive, and productive by coaching businesses and educators on how to communicate with the Why Generation and unleash their tremendous abilities.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Understanding business, like at all… before becoming an entrepreneur I didn’t understand about business, I didn’t understand about accounts payable and accounts receivables, and I didn’t understand about taxes other than my personal taxes, I didn’t understand how any of that worked. So, I need quite an education as I went. And frankly I have made a lot of it up as I have gone along and that is what’s made me successful. I was never afraid to fail. I have never been afraid to fail in my life because I think failure is the greatest gift we all have because it is at those moments that we focus and we plan and we take action in a way that we never do proactively. And that’s made me who I am today”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon HillFavourite Quote:
“From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go” Jim Lovell
Recommended Online Resources:
- Blinkist lets you read the key lessons from 2500 nonfiction books in 15 min or fewer Start your free trial today and find out how
- Google – Search the world’s information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you’re looking for…
- Twitter – It’s what’s happening. From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
- Instagram A simple, fun creative way to capture, edit share photos, videos messages with friends family
- Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
- 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.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“you have to be decisive, you have to determine what your purpose is, what you are trying to accomplish, and you have to be decisive in the execution of your game plan. You have to get all of it done you can’t let anything get in your way. And not be afraid to make mistake or multiple mistakes, learn from the mistakes. In my life I focus, I plan, I take action. I have always surrounded those times in my life where I have made tremendous mistakes and errors… but if you think about it whenever you make that mistake and you focus you plan you take action that’s where you calibrate, that’s where you take corrective action. So be decisive, understand where you are going and how you are going to get there”…[Listen for More]
More About Mark Perna:
TFS Results (tools for Schools)
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” Omar Hamoui, co-founder of AdMob
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mark Perna:
- “you have to hire people who are smarter than you”
- “you have to know where you are going and why you are going there and you have to get other people to believe it to”
- “need to bring people around you who are smarter than you bring assets that you don’t have. And that is what takes you to the next level, that and the clear understanding that you have to learn in every aspect of what you do”
- “you have to use everything that you’ve got… you have to take an incredible inventory of what your own personal assets our and find a way to use them”
- “no matter how difficult challenge may seem it’s not a miracle you just have to make the decision to go”
- “if you are the smartest person in the room as an entrepreneur you have failed miserably”
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