Ed Krow works with executives and business owners who are struggling with people problems, such as adapting to changing business conditions and customer, investor, or community expectations. He turns irrelevant and ineffective HR functions into strategic contributors by aligning HR with the business objectives. As a result, Human Resources actually drives business results. To date, Ed has completed over 700 projects for more than 250 clients across nearly all industries. Ed is an advocate for using Organizational Development strategies to drive business results. He speaks to senior leaders across the United States and Canada about how to turn their people into strategic contributors. He is the author of, “Strategic HR: Driving Bottom-Line Results Through Your People”. Ed’s clients and audiences include organizations as diverse as Johnson & Johnson, Goodwill Industries, Penn State University, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Utz Snack Foods. When he’s not working with clients, Ed can be found teaching at Millersville University. In his free time, Ed enjoys family time, travel, golf, the outdoors and Notre Dame and Baltimore Ravens football.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had to realise from acre self-care perspective that early on if I scheduled say a meeting with you and you and I were talking and connecting I needed some down time to recharge. And that’s from a self-care standpoint I really need to be sure that I don’t have days where I go back to back to back to back to back with meetings and intense discussions. Not only is it not good for my mental state but it’s not fair to my clients because as my mental state gets one down, I am not as effective for them. And so that was something that I learned about myself early on when I was setting my own schedule and it wasn’t someone else telling me where I need to be and when I need to be there. That I needed to build in those time buffers of fine need my down time to come down, process and rejuvenate”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Leadership Gold: Lessons I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Leading Book by John C. Maxwell
Also mentioned
- Key Person of Influence: The Five-Step Method to become one of the most highly valued and highly paid people in your industry Book by Kevin Harrington and Daniel Priestley
- Click the following link to listen to the Daniel Priestley podcast episode on The Entrepreneur Way
Favourite Quote:
“Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.” John C. Maxwell
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be confident enough to go out to the marketplace with your goods and services but be willing to adapt on-the-fly if you see that the market needs something a little different. And above all else stay in your joy and your genius zone. Don’t sell out your soul to make a dollar. To me that’s just like working for the man. If you don’t love what you’re doing as an entrepreneur then don’t do it. Find something you love and then put your heart into that. And to me that’s what being an entrepreneur is all about. It doesn’t mean there’s no work, it doesn’t mean it’s not going to be hard; it just means that during those hard times you can still enjoy the journey”…[Listen for More]
More About Ed Krow:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ed Krow:
- “we are called to influence others for good and so if we are going to make a difference in this world regardless of whether it’s in business or politics or our faith life or where ever it happens to be we have to be influential”
- “we can work with people to get things done”
- “the game has changed so much that I feel like we are constantly playing catch up now with the algorithms. I feel like if I had stayed in that marketplace and kept that iron in the fire, I would have smoothed out some bumps along the way”
- “I always look at the marketing dollars that I have allotted for my business and I make sure that those are not all in one basket. That I am devoting time to a couple of different sources of getting the word out”
- “marketing presence also helps with me building other relationships”
- “relationships are what makes the world go round”
- “to a certain extent it’s staying the course, believing in what you are doing and how you are doing it. I say that with some reservation Neil because I think certainly, we have to evaluate what we are doing and shift on-the-fly from time to time”
- “I’ve grown as a leader and as an individual”
- “if we don’t influence others, we are not a leader… That level of influence that we have over another can and should be used for good but that’s what makes us a leader. Anything less and we are probably just manipulating or at worst being a bit of a dictator to people. I believe that working on our influence over others is key”
- “I believe in opening up those differences of opinion and considering them. And that’s something I think we don’t as a society do enough of. And as entrepreneurs we have to have open minds that we can better serve our customer”
- “make sure that you surround yourself with people smarter than you. Don’t think that you can take this entrepreneurial journey on your own because you don’t have to . I am so fortunate I have great people advising me on marketing and finances and web presence, even the folks who helped me write my book. There is no way I could have accomplished what I have accomplished today without support of those folks. Don’t be feeling like you have to go it alone in this journey as an entrepreneur. You don’t and you shouldn’t ”
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