Patrick Frazier brings clients more than 35 years “in the trenches” operating experience as a business executive in the technology, banking and transportation industries. He has served as vice president of operations, director of systems development, executive coach and worked on business process improvement on high growth company leadership teams. These experiences create tremendous “connection” with client executive teams, along with the ability to empathize with the daily challenges and opportunities. Pat understands how to create award-winning results and cultures. He guides company executives in finding and keeping A-players, getting the right people in the right seats, developing and putting an actionable strategic plan in place and having the discipline to execute and hit milestones. By applying the 7 Attributes of Agile Growth methodology, Pat assists businesses and executive teams to understand their options, and to achieve the maximum value from their business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Patrick’s Clients
- Jack Stack Founder and President of SRC Holdings Corp
- Bob Chapman
When business started difficulties overcame:
“cash, liquidity. It takes a lot more cash and a lot more time than you think it will. And those were great struggles… The other thing that was difficult for me was the sales part of it. As a coach I knew that I could facilitate the learning experience, I could facilitate the strategic thinking and execution, planning… I can facilitate project management… Facilitation was easy. And when I started my business I felt gosh I have just got to be a great coach and a great facilitator. Now that wasn’t true. What I had to overcome when I started was I had to understand a really simple principle and that was nobody does nothing until somebody sells somebody something. So I had to get out there”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- John C. Maxwell Books
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You Book by John C. Maxwell
- Patrick M. Lencioni Books
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Book by Patrick M. Lencioni
- The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues Book by Patrick M. Lencioni
- Jack Stack Books
- The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company Book by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham
- A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business Book by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham
- Click the following link to listen to the Bo Burlingham podcast episode on The Entrepreneur Way
Favourite Quote:
- “persistence is more important than intelligence”
- “what got you here won’t get you there” Marshall Goldsmith
Recommended Online Resources:
- Audible – Explore the world’s largest selection of audiobook titles by bestselling authors
- GetAbstract – The world of business, summarized. The world’s largest library of business book summaries. Expand your business knowledge with summaries you can read in 10 minutes or less
- Grammarly – Millions trust Grammarly’s free writing app to make their messages, documents, and posts clear, mistake free, and effective
- Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems Zoom Rooms is the original software based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done Zoom is a private company headquartered in San Jose, CA
- Skype – Stay in touch! Free online calls, messaging, affordable international calling to mobiles or landlines and Skype for Business for effective collaboration
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“you have got to love it all. If you are making widgets for the man and you want to go and start your own widget company you have got to understand what that widget company is. You have got to understand it and you have got to love it all. You have got to love the marketing piece and the sales piece on the buy / build peace and the delivery piece and the customer service piece and then the accounting piece. You have got to love the whole business”…[Listen for More]
More About Patrick Frazier:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” Henry Ford
Other Quotes From the Chat with Patrick Frazier:
- “have a community of advisers. Get in a mastermind group of some sort, get a coach or a mentor or an adviser. Find someone who’s been there and done that. That’s just absolutely invaluable for entrepreneurs that are starting out to be able to have a community of advisers. You can’t have too many”
- “the secrets to success would probably be hard work and persistence and just absurd curiosity to learn from every possible situation”
- “People would say that when you fail it’s an incredible learning opportunity, which I agree. But I also think you learn a lot from the wins and I think you learn a lot from the rain outs. I think you have to look for learning opportunities in every place, every time, every opportunity. And I think that’s the secret keep learning. Wake up each day thinking today is going to be a great day and I’m not sure what I’m going to learn today but I’m going to learn something and by the end of the day I will be a better person because of that”
- “the ideal team player is humble, hungry and smart”
- “focus, align and execute”
- “leaders are readers”
- “learning is really important for us as entrepreneurs”
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