Rick Snyder, a business coach, writer, speaker, and consultant, has launched several businesses and is an expert in mentoring, training, and teaching others how to utilize the process of bringing intuition into an effective business plan and company culture. He is CEO of Invisible Edge™ and author of “Decisive Intuition.”
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I never had a mental that showed me how to do it. And so I really had to learn the hard way where I just started literally putting signage out there that I’m open for business and yet I really had no sense of sales, I had no sense of marketing. I actually thought if you put out a sign people are going to come to… And so I finally started to patchwork together some different mentorship by people who are more experienced than me who had been down that road and so that’s eventually how I really started to learn what it takes to run a business. And you also need a lot of support”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action Book by Simon SinekFavourite Quote:
“live the life that you want to live and you will meet the people that you want to meet”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Asana – Easily organize and plan workflows, projects, and more, so you can keep your team s work on schedule
- Slack is where work flows It’s where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done
- Harvest – Simple time tracking, fast online invoicing, and powerful reporting software Simplify employee timesheets and billing
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“keep listening to that deeper voice inside you and to also make sure you have some mentors and trusted advisers that are in your life that you can really go to as a sounding board especially when times get tough or you doubt yourself. It’s so important to have those influences in your life that you can go to that you trust that keep you on track to what’s most important”…[Listen for More]
More About Rick Snyder:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” Lily Tomlin, American actress
Other Quotes From the Chat with Rick Snyder:
- “What I enjoy most about what I do is empowering people”
- “there’s a lot of great leaders like that where we can take different aspects of their gifts and model some of those that work for us to”
- “I think there is so many things that you can learn about yourself in a business situation especially about authority dynamics is a really big one when you have to manage up or manage down you are going to learn a lot about yourself in either way”
- “I even make a distinction between success and fulfilment. For me fulfilment is even deeper, it’s even what really is aligned to my highest values and what gives me the most sense of satisfaction and reward. And I think success comes on the back being really fulfilled in my life being really on purpose”
- “when you are clear about your purpose and why you exist people can really get behind that”
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