Joseph Bikart is a founding member, is a founding partner and director of the international consulting firm Templar Advisors. For the past 20 years, following a first career in investment banking, he has advised leaders in corporate and public life on their communication and negotiations. Through his work with thousands of decision-makers, he has created Decisiology, an innovative approach to executive coaching, drawing from his studies at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and at the Tavistock in London. He is also a keynote speaker, and a lecturer at the London Business School.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Tim Cook
- Steve Jobs
- Bill Gates
- Warren Buffett
- Jack Ma
- Hugh Verrier founder of White & Case LLP
When business started difficulties overcame:
“…when you realise you have to do everything and it dawns on you it is going to be more challenging than you thought. Everything, accounting, payroll, later on, everything is down to you. And of course as you grow the company you create this structure again, you create the support system”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Thinking, Fast and Slow Book by Daniel Kahneman
- James Hollis Books
Favourite Quote:
- “We convince by our presence” Walt Whitman
- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
Recommended Online Resources:
Harvard Business Review – Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world’s best business and management experts
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“know who you are. It is too easy to be in business for the wrong reasons. It’s too easy to be in a job because we think it’s going to be more lucrative or prestigious all sorts of things which have nothing to do with us, who we are truly inside ourselves… Understand who you are, understand what drives you, understand what your passions are, understand what gives you joy and fulfilment. And this is the greatest roadmap to your business. And at moments when we all feel lost, we all feel we’ve lost our ways it’s really good to reconnect with that and redraw the map based on that”…[Listen for More]
More About Joseph Bikart:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.” Seth Godin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Joseph Bikart:
- “People approach decision-making from different perspectives and you find people from professional settings who are very rational. And the pitfall of that is that very often they think that through rational thinking they can come up with any decision and very often they stall in their stuck because reason can only take you so far. And similarly have some people who only rely on gut feeling and that’s not very scientific. But what’s proven as the best approach to decision-making uses both, uses an element of rational thinking and rational analysis but there also has to be an element of gut feeling involved in successful decisions ”
- “we have to fight the impulse to decide immediately”
- “I think it’s good to have a passion of course but be careful that your passion doesn’t go in the way of your success. And what I mean by that is if you have a passion which is the starting point, you need a business plan”
- “where are business really accelerated its growth is when we decided to break walls, to think outside the box and to think beyond our core expertise and see where we needed to grow”
- “I think what weak leaders do is when a thought doesn’t resonate immediately with them they reject it. It’s not their fault, it doesn’t come from them. But the ability to stay with it, to listen to really think what if it works is really what helps a company grow at the end of the day. What helps a business succeed is go beyond your own brain, your own limitations and take in other people’s input, other people’s ideas, and accept these ideas generously”
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