Amy Posey is a Silicon Valley-based leadership consultant focused on neuroscience and high performance. As both an adventurer and leadership development facilitator, she is co author of: Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme Adventures.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I got a bit of a jump start as an entrepreneur. I got like training wheels put on because I worked for a small company …and I worked the idea of being able to lead a small company kind of gave me the chops to be able to give myself the confidence to say I could do this for myself and I can grow and build a company myself… I feel like all of those years gave me a real big head start before jumping out on my own. And so I took a risk”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World Book by Bob Johansen
- Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive Book by Jennifer Brown
- Two Awesome Hours: Science-Based Strategies to Harness Your Best Time and Get Your Most Important Work Done Book by Josh Davis
- Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential Book by Carol Dweck
- No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work and How They Help Us Succeed Book by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
Favourite Quote:
” I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“I think the biggest thing is manage your cash flow well. I think that’s where people get really stopped up, I’ve seen it. When I talk to people about managing their cash flow they are like ‘wow that’s boring’I am like yeah it’s boring but it’s the truth of trying to run a sustainable business. And that’s always been my focus is running sustainable businesses. And that to me is a measure of success. So I think really focusing… And if you’re not good at it having someone to help you do that well is critical”…[Listen for More]
More About Amy Posey:
- SUPER*MEGA*BOSS
- The AIP Group
- More Wild Success
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“They succeed, because they think they can.” Virgil
Other Quotes From the Chat with Amy Posey:
- “paying for expertise is very useful. And even if you are crunched for cash figuring out a way that you get smart people in that can help you. And I think that was one of the big things”
- “knowing that in the short-term you are likely going to be your brand. And so, sort of understanding how you play that role”
- “getting an education in business was helpful”
- “spending the time to get smart on some things can really save you a lot of time. So, get smart people around you, read a couple of books and get smart”
- “I have been really focused on emotional intelligence the last couple of years because I’ve found that leaders, business people, adventurers, humans who are more in touch and in tune with how their emotions work tend to yield more success or at least have feelings of success in their life. Because they are not overwhelmed or overtaken with those rash emotional reactions and they can be more thoughtful in their responses. And so, I have been working personally on emotional intelligence for myself for a good couple of years. But I find when you can put all of the smarts together then you’ve got the emotional component that you’ve worked on. I feel like that if you’ve made an emotionally intelligent leader you are going to be more successful”
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