Tom Rubens is a business coach and expert in corporate culture and strategy. In his 40 years of diverse experience in business, Tom founded a commodity trading company, a real estate brokerage and assembled investment groups that raised millions of dollars to buy minor league baseball and basketball franchises. In his coaching practice, The Accountability Factor, Tom helps businesses increase revenue and productivity, and manage relationships and collaborations while living harmonious lives. Tom’s first book, Lifeness: Harmonize an Entrepreneurial Life was released in April 2017
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I would say the biggest difficulty I have had to overcome has been within, my difficulty taking orders. I never envisioned myself working for a company, a large or small company. I was too headstrong, I always thought I knew a better way. And that’s pretty obnoxious especially when you’re young and you have no track record to just act like you know more, I know what’s right. But I just had tremendous confidence in myself and in my abilities and I have always felt that I would rather I be the one to make the final decision”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Abundant Bohemian: How To Live An Unconventional Life Without Starving in the Process Book by Joseph DowningFavourite Quote:
“how you do anything is how you do everything”
Recommended Online Resources:
Google – Search the world’s information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you’re looking for…
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Seek honest feedback, really ask for and then embrace the feedback you get. Whether that’s determining whether a new product should go to market, whether it’s deciding whether to hire, fire, promote someone within your organisation. Get feedback and listen to it. And I guess the trump card to that is ask people around you what you are missing, what your blind spots are, because you have got them and as long as you ignore them, they will be there to torture you. So, ask for feedback about yourself. What I missing is one of my favourite questions because you can see it I can’t”…[Listen for More]
More About Tom Rubens:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” Coco Chanel
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tom Rubens:
- “we all have blind spots so we may see this challenge and not even realise whether it’s a wall or a door or a deep hole there are other ways around it. But we don’t see it when we are in the moment, when we are in the heat of battle, we sometimes don’t see these things. And it just takes an impartial voice to say if you look just a little bit to the left there is a path”
- “I am a voracious reader so I’m constantly looking for tips, tools, advice, new ways of thinking from books”
- “I have failed as spectacularly as I have succeeded and sometimes back to back”
- “I have consistently followed my belief; I have followed my gut”
- “there is always risk and with risk comes the unknown. But if I can assess the risk or the probability of A or B then I might take a risk if it’s a 70% chance of success. I know it’s not going to work 30% of the time and I am okay with that, I’m going to the best I can to make sure that I get a good shot at that 70% knowing that I’m going to miss sometimes”
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