Ron Carucci is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth. He has helped organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth, and design organizations that can execute those strategies. He has worked in more than 25 countries on 4 continents. He is the author of 8 books, including the recent Amazon #1 Rising to Power. He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where Navalent’s work on leadership was named one of 2016’s management ideas that mattered most. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes, and a two-time TEDx speaker. His work’s been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Inc., BusinessInsider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and thoughtleaders. He lives in the Seattle area with his wife and two children. On weekends, you’ll find him on his bike, on the lake, on his skis, at the movies, or cheering for the Seahawks. His greatest joy is seeing leader’s thrive by having the impact on the lives of those they lead. Helping leaders find their voice, and use it to serve their organization’s greater good is what gets him up every morning. In his office, Ron has a collection of antique door knobs, door knockers and skeleton keys. Every day, they remind him that life is about finding and pursuing the open doors in front of you, and making sure those doors open for others. In the morning, one of his favorite routines is picking the coffee mug in the conference room from among his collection. Each mug hails from a difference experience and person in his life, and helps him begin his day remembering to be grateful for all those in his life who’ve been part of his story.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“there were difficulties I wish we knew how to overcome. When we began our business we were three colleagues and friends who loved this work and we didn’t love doing it at a very large firm where we were. Still wanted to practice what we did in a more intimate way. So we thought we could just go and do it on our own. In 15 years ago we started Navalent the number of people doing leadership and organisational work was really really different. It was a niche service, it was a set of specialised practitioners doing the work”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Crossing the Unknown Sea Book by David WhyteFavourite Quote:
“Nothing in life is irrevocable except death” Ron’s Montor
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“know who you are and know why you are doing it, really really know. Don’t just assume you have a great idea and the world needs it. Really know who you are and why you believe your idea matters to other people”…[Listen for More]
More About Ron Carucci:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Napoleon Hill “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ron Carucci:
- “Success is the greatest impediment to change”
- “you have to get very, very clear on your motivations”
- “it’s supply and demand not just supply. You have to create demand, you have to continue to refine… Force yourself to keep outside in look at who you are and how the market sees you and continue to refine how you talk to the people you want to pay you money”
- “you need to remind yourself every day that you are part of a bigger story than the one you are in and to be grateful for that bigger story, people in it, people who have come alongside you, the people who came before you. And maintain some posture of gratitude”
- “it’s grit, there are days it is going to suck. You are going to just want to throw the towel in and walk away and say enough of this because it is going to get really, really hard. And if you are not willing to not give up in a matter how painful it is… And it is so clichéd but there are days where you just want to just run to the mountings and escape and never come back. But that is not an option you can’t look back”
- “don’t sit on the side-lines and don’t try, skin your knees. You will fall, it will hurt but you will learn”
- “don’t not try because you are afraid you worry about what other people think or you are not sure how it will go”
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