Jeanie Cockell & Joan McArthur-Blair, co-presidents of Cockell McArthur-Blair Consulting, specialize in collaboratively designing strategies with clients to surface their wisdom as individuals, groups and organizations in order for them to build positive futures and to respond effectively to change. They co-authored the book Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Other leaders that are trying to do positive change in the world
- David Cooperrider
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think it was the fear… I was afraid because I had always been at an institution with a salary and so on. So I didn’t resign from my position what I did was I went back to my original position of teaching mathematics two days a week, so I was on a part-time salary, I was still there with my benefits and all the other things you get when you work at a college. And I did that for two years before I actually resigned from my position because by then I was so busy… The impact of fear stepping out. What if people don’t want to buy what it is I do”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t Book by Jim Collins
- Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation Book by Parker J. Palmer
Favourite Quote:
- “It’s Never Too Late To Be What You Might Have Been” George Eliot
- “You got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don’t mess with Mister In-between”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Appreciative Inquiry Commons – The Appreciative Inquiry Commons – The “AI Commons” is a place for everyone with an interest in Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and positive change. You are invited to learn about AI, share your own AI resources, connect with our global AI community, and schedule or attend AI events such as summits, workshops, and gatherings.
- 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.
- 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.
- Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Do what you love because people noticed that you love it and as a consequence they will buy from you… Don’t be afraid… Be afraid and do it anyway… Step across that line even if it’s partially part-time… just to start stepping across the line to see if this is something that works for them because not everybody is an entrepreneur not everybody wants to run everything… I think to step across that boundary to see how it feels because you have to tell the world what you know, and that is not always easy for everybody. And tell the world why they should work with you, and that’s not always easy”…[Listen for More]
More About Jeanie Cockell & Joan McArthur-Blair:
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” Bruce Lee
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jeanie Cockell & Joan McArthur-Blair:
- “We live in a world of constant change and it is chaotic. And human beings don’t naturally change easily, they want to stick to what they know. And so we cant do that in the world anymore because it is just not like that”
- “I think we as human beings tend to focus on what’s not working and the fix it mentality”
- “you are what you are selling and it is exhilarating and also scary”
- “the key to being on is your network”
- “I think the values that you hold as entrepreneurs your clients notice. Are you authentic, the care, is what you are selling true, do you honour kind of the ways in which they interpret your work?”
- “Have fun…be determined and get up every day and just do it
- “I think determination is very powerful in entrepreneurship”
- “it’s never too late to become”
- “being get an entrepreneur is joyful and scary and it is a life decision that is really really rewarding”
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