Steven Shallenberger was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and He has lived in Utah, a place that he loves for the last 45 years. He graduated from Brigham Young University with an Accounting Degree and from the Harvard Business School. Steve has organized and purchased 11 different companies in four industries. He has sold a number of those companies, while continuing to be the President of three of them. He’s led numerous civic organizations including: Serving as president of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association, President of America’s Freedom Festival, Chairman of the Utah County Republican Party, Mission President in Madrid, Spain and Stake President of a YSA Stake. Steve loves the youth! Steve is the founder of Becoming Your Best Global Leadership and author of the national bestselling book Becoming Your Best! He teaches leadership throughout the world. In the last three months, Becoming Your Best has completed tours in various countries around the world South Africa, East Africa, Romania, Malta, Rwanda, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Alaska and throughout the United States. Steve is currently working on book #3 and #4. He’s passionate about helping others be successful in life, but also at home. He’s been married for over 44 years and has six children and 20 grandchildren.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Mr Conger
- Gardiner Russell
- Bill Jones
When business started difficulties overcame:
“our world is changing so quickly; you just can’t sit back on your laurels with whatever knowledge you had yesterday. So, this is a big part of it and I think I felt that was my weakness then and continues to be my weakness today. Is how to stay ahead of the curve. So, you try to get things into your life that continue to help you. Put forces in your life that can be a blessing to you.”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations Book by Ori Brafman and Rod A. BeckstromFavourite Quote:
“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recommended Online Resources:
TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100 languages Ideas free to stream and download
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“remember the formula FFF. And that is when you have an idea don’t go directly to execution. The formula for fortune that’s a formula for failure. And the formula for success FFS is when you have an idea is put in the discipline of thinking about what product or service you have, your idea that people respond to and see how they respond to the price and service and listen carefully. And then make pivots, make your adjustments, test it, nail it then scale it, and then launch your product. Once you have real confidence in what you have done its you start out with a rifle shot on your testing, and once you got your formula down then use the canon and then execute…. Don’t go directly from idea to execution. Go from idea to doing a few things of due diligence then execute”…[Listen for More]
More About Steven Shallenberger:
Becoming Your Best Global Leadership
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” Henry Ford
Other Quotes From the Chat with Steven Shallenberger:
- “you can learn so richly so much from the setbacks and saying I am not going to do this again”
- “I don’t know that you can cheat the process”
- “so I just want to take the lessons that I’ve learned and try not to have to learn them again so that it speeds up my success in the future”
- “a result of the people in our lives”
- “sometimes we think little things don’t have a big impact. Well we are woefully wrong and off course on that one”
- “having an organisation that is aligned more where people are involved and we cross train and we tap in and ask for opinions. We say here is the direction we are going, here are our goals for the year, now we are all aligned let’s go after it. And then everybody does their part”
- “bad feelings towards another person is simply time wasted. Every 60 seconds you are angry at somebody else means you cannot reach your fullest potential”
- “Discover, Grow, Succeed”
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