Kris Boesch is the CEO of Choose People, a company that transforms company cultures, increases employee happiness and boosts the bottom-line. She is also the author of Culture Works: How to Create Happiness in the Workplace. Kris has been featured as a workplace culture expert in Inc., Entrepreneur and Forbes.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Kevin Kruse – Click this link to listen Kevin Kruse podcast on The Entrepreneur Way
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the biggest thing that I had to overcome was that I had a great idea. What I mean by that is when I started ‘Choose People’ I was all about creating a seal of approval that when Tom products and services to say this product or service was made by happy employees… All my friends and family told me this is such a great idea because I was all about creating this consumer revolution so my ego got all puffed up with how great of an idea it was, and then in short I tout into the marketplace and people were like well that’s nice but I don’t want to buy it because if I am a company that has an extraordinary workplace culture no one knows about your seal, like no one cares. So let me know when someone cares”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business Book by Kevin Kruse
- Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck Book by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade Book by Robert B. Cialdini
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers Book by Timothy Ferriss
Favourite Quote:
“If you don’t play you can’t win”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Focus At Will – Focus Will combines neuroscience music to boost productivity and tune out distractions!
- Poets – Home The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“to not hide in creativity… being on the skinny branches actually sharing what is already there… Really check yourself. If you have an opportunity in your business that you know you are not leveraging because you know it makes you a little nervous or a little uncomfortable like that’s actually where there is to go to work”…[Listen for More]
More About Kris Boesch:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” Benjamin Franklin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kris Boesch:
- “the biggest mistakes I made was holding onto my original idea for too long and then also charging too little”
- “make sure that you got the grit and the perseverance for three years because it’s going to be about three years until work starts coming to you and you don’t have to go hunting for it”
- “don’t take yourself too seriously”
- “you have to keep your own fire lit… You have to be really tapped into why you are doing what you are doing because you are the one who helps light everybody else’s fire. And if it’s not there for you there is no way your team is going to be inspired every single day to do the work that it takes to make the magic happen”
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