David Corbin has been referred to as ‘Robin Williams with an MBA” because of his very practical, high content speeches coupled with entertaining and sometimes side-splitting stories and applications. A former psychotherapists with a background in healthcare, he has served as a management and leadership consultant to businesses and organizations of all sizes – from Fortune 20 companies to businesses with less than 1 million – and enjoys the challenges of all. He has worked directly with the Presidents of companies such as AT&T, Hallmark, Sprint as well as the Hon.Secretary of Veterans Administration and others. David was the host and star of the movie ‘Pass It On’ with his colleagues Mark Victor Hansen, Brian Tracy, John Assaraf, Denis Waitley, Evander Holyfield, Greg Reid, Les Brown and 50 others David was awarded the International Enterprise of the Year for Innovation by Bank of America for the touch screen patient interview system that he invented and took to market. Presented by Former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, Sec. James Baker, Tom Peters, Maya Angelou, Hon. Newt Gingrich and others, the Enterprise Award is awarded once per year to only one recipient. Please welcome The Mentor to Mentors, David M. Corbin
When business started difficulties overcame:
… So you know brash, bravado confidence just doesn’t cut it, in that case literally. So what I had to overcome was that. I had to create a semblance of humility and I needed to learn to do an audit. An audit of core competencies required and an audit of core competencies that I have and I can deliver. And that is what I really needed to do…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber Illuminate: Harnessing the Positive Power of Negative Thinking Book by David M. Corbin Psyched On Service: Building a Total Service Mentality Book by David M. Corbin Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon HillThe Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations Book by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Leadership and the One Minute Manager Book by Kenneth Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, Drea Zigarmi
Brian TracySeeds Of Greatness Book by Denis Waitley
Also mentioned
SPIN®-Selling Book by Neil Rackham Psyched On Service by David Mark Corbin Kenneth H. Blanchard Books The One Minute Manager Book by Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson Raving Fans!: Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service Book by Kenneth H. Blanchard, Sheldon BowlesPreventing BrandSlaughter: How to Preserve, Support, and Grow Your Brand Asset Value Book by David M Corbin
Favourite Quote:
“you can’t solve everything you face but you can’t solve anything unless you face it”
“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!” – Paul J. Meyer
“to thine own self be true,. And it must follow, as the night the day,. Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 3
Also mentioned:
“When the values are clear the decisions are easy” Stephen Covey
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Get real. Illuminate. Yes get real. And this is..is…I am harping on it because if I were dying this is the message I want to leave as my sort of last lecture…is get real serious about what your business requires, who it serves, how it serves them, why it services them, what competition I out there, what the business needs, what it requires of you and others and how you stack up against those requirements and all the rest is quite simple”…[Listen for More]
More About David Corbin:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.” Philippa Gregory
Other Quotes From the Chat with David Corbin:
“My business is designed my personal life. I am not a business man I am a man, As such I am a ‘hu-man’”
“Prescription before diagnosis is malpractice”
”You can’t read the label from inside the bottle”
“The bottom line is get it and get it done”
PDCA – Plan Do Check Act
“People never argue with their own findings”
Spin Selling Questions – ‘Situational’, ‘Problem’, ‘Implications’ and ‘Needs Payoff’
“Decide in haste repent in leisure”
“Readers are leaders”
Course “From change victim to change master”
“Change equals death. Death of the old way, birth of the new and we grieve”
“you are either building your brand or killing your brand and nothing is neutral”
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