Kevin Kruse is the Founder and CEO of LEADx, offering the world’s first leadership trainer and coach powered by IBM Watson. Kevin is also a New York Times bestselling author of nine books including Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Rudy Carson
- Elon Musk
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the day I graduated I had no money; I had some credit cards but no money and I started my first business. I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, I was young and confident and naïve. And I didn’t have enough money Neil both for rent for an office and rendering apartment so I just got the office, literally it was one room 10 feet by 10 feet. I literally would work from 6 AM to midnight, I would pull a pillow out of my filing drawer, I didn’t have any customers I didn’t have any files and I would sleep under my desk and I did that for a year. I would wake up every morning go to the YMCA community centre in the town to take my shower”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies Book by Chet HolmesFavourite Quote:
“life is about making an impact not making an income”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Basecamp – Trusted by millions, Basecamp puts everything you need to get work done in one place. It’s the calm, organized way to manage projects, work with clients
- Kindle App – The Kindle app puts over 1.5 million books at your fingertips. It’s the app for every reader, whether you’re a book reader, magazine reader, or newspaper reader — and you don’t need to own a Kindle to use it. Choose from over a million Kindle books from the Kindle Store or enjoy popular magazines and newspapers, such as The Economist, The Spectator, The Guardian and The Daily Mail, with high-resolution colour images.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“I used to always tell entrepreneurs the first thing you should do when you start company is write a book. I always started all my previous companies by writing a book. These days I say start a podcast first and then like a year later turn into a book”…[Listen for More]
More About Kevin Kruse:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” Maya Angelou
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kevin Kruse:
- “if you want to go quickly go alone you want to go far go together”
- “the pie will be bigger and still there if you can attract great partners to work on it with you”
- “if you want to grow a business that’s going to have some value and make millions of dollars or whatever your number is you will have to build a team, probably have partners or at least incentivise people”
- “this is a team sport if you want to get big”
- “start by being really clear. Are you trying to build a successful consulting practice and maybe that’s $1 million of turnover a year or you trying to build a 10 million-dollar a year company? Strategies are very different”
- “high performers want that feedback they want to know how they can do better I want to coach to tell me how to do better”
- “I define success as just the freedom to do with your time what you want – it’s time freedom”
- “there is different parts different journeys but when it comes to time freedom that’s to me what success is all about”
- “the more of an impact that you make the more will come back to you”
- “every day I have a morning ritual”
- “my personal mission is to provide hope and help to all those who want to achieve their full potential”
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