Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership consultant, author, speaker, and researcher. He is a leadership professor at Cal State Fullerton. He is also a leadership consultant that helps organizations improve their culture, leaders, teams, and employees by improving their mindsets. He is the author of Success Mindsets: Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“for most of my adult life I have had this prevention mindset. I avoided debt like the plague, I made it through a bachelor’s degree and a PhD programme without taking on any debt. I never wanted to be an entrepreneur because I saw it as being too risky. And what I awaken to when I started to learn about these mindsets is that I had this prevention mindset which was essentially making me the passenger in my life. I was being blown about by the winds and the currents of the sea and I realise that if I wanted to reach the success that I wanted to have, if I wanted to make the impact I wanted to have I needed to develop this promotion mindset which meant that I would have to take risks, brave the winds and the storms of the sea in order to get to my destination. And so, as I have made that shift that has made all of the difference in the world for me”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Book by Ed Catmull and Amy WallaceFavourite Quote:
“And the Day Came When the Risk to Remain Tight In a Bud Was More Painful Than the Risk It Took to Blossom.” Anais Nin
Recommended Online Resources:
Qualtrics – The Leading Research, Survey & Experience Software. Optimise the 4-core experience of your business with Qualtrics XM a single platform for your brand, product, employee and customer experiences
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“if you want to reach greater levels of success and even more particular if you feel like you’ve been on this hamster wheel where you have been busting your butt off but don’t feel like you’re really getting anywhere where you need to go next is to focus on your mindsets because it’s likely what has been limiting your success is your prevailing mindsets. And if we can awaken to those and develop more positive mindsets then we can unlock the success that we are really seeking. So, I think if we are wanting to improve first focus on our mindsets. If we can improve our mindsets everything else will take care of itself”…[Listen for More]
More About Ryan Gottfredson:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ryan Gottfredson:
- “I try to move as quickly as I can up the learning curve and I think the learning curve is tough to shortcut”
- “if we are closed minded and we feel like we are right or that we need to be right we are going to limit ourselves from taking on the ideas and suggestions of others”
- “as part of the open-minded journey on this S-curve we need to believe that we could be wrong. And when we leave that space within us to be wrong, we seek after finding truth and thinking optimally. And at the end of the day that’s what’s going to get us up the S-curve more quickly is by being open-minded to the ideas and suggestions of others acknowledging that we may not be right. Because when we acknowledge that it lends to us wanting to seek out other perspectives and to seek out new ideas, to see disagreement as opportunities and I think that’s really how we get up the S-curve as quickly as possible. What’s problematic is we often times are the person that’s slowing us down as we are moving up that curve”
- “if we have the right mindsets, the success mindsets our gut feel is generally going to lead to good decisions. If we have negative mindsets and we have fears and insecurities our gut feel is generally going to limit us. So, if we have this prevention mindset and we are focused on avoiding problems and limiting risk our gut feel in any circumstance where we face adversity is to back away from it, to go to safety. And while that’s justifiable because we don’t want to be ‘harmed’ what we are actually doing is we’re limiting our progress towards the outcomes that we want to create. And so, I think your gut feel is great if you have positive mindsets and your gut feel is going to lead to negative long-term outcomes if you have the negative mindsets”
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