Krister Ungerböck is a leadership communication expert, keynote speaker, and former CEO of a global tech company. His work has appeared in NPR, Forbes, Inc., HR.com, Chief Executive, Recruiter.com and Entrepreneur. Prior to exiting corporate life at age 42, Krister was CEO of one of the largest family-owned software companies in the world. While leading the company to over 3,000% growth, his team won five consecutive Top Workplace Awards, achieved remarkable employee engagement levels of 99.3%, and became a dominant player in its market niche — event management software.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“probably my biggest difficulty and I think it’s properly common in family businesses is really that I used to call it founders son syndrome is the desire to achieve great enough results that no one would ever tell me that I was just successful because I inherited my father’s company… What’s the one thing and not getting distracted by the next shiny object and just picking one thing and continuing to invest in that month over month, year every year rather than shifting the brand or shifting things every six months to 2 years like many entrepreneurs do”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life Book by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Also mentioned:
- Copywriting Secrets: How Everyone Can Use The Power Of Words To Get More Clicks, Sales and Profits . . . No Matter What You Sell Or Who You Sell It To! Book by Jim Edwards
Favourite Quote:
“Change how you lead, change your words”
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“keep your identity and your business separate… The more we wrap up our identity into our financial success as a business or the success of our business that is from personal experience a very very dangerous thing”…[Listen for More]
More About Krister Ungerböck:
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” Alexander Graham Bell
Other Quotes From the Chat with Krister Ungerböck:
- “what I found is that people who are at the top of their game are often not just 20 or 30 percent more expensive than the people who are pretty good, sometimes they are two or three times more expensive. Now sometimes people just do that because they have a big brand and they just don’t want to do consulting or something like that. So, you have to make sure you are not spending your money with people who are using the high price to get away from helping people one-on-one…. So, paying to solve the problem versus the number of hours and the time that it creates. That’s probably the biggest mistake. I tried to do things cheaply when it may be would have been better to just hire the best”
- “it’s more about ensuring that the people who were enlisted to follow to help us to achieve a vision that they want to follow us as individuals. And the way that we do that is by creating emotional connection with them… Investing more time in the emotional connection with employees and building bonds not only between employees and leaders but also building those bonds emotional connection to the company or the mission”
- “I am trying to surround myself with experts who really know what they are doing in that field and soak up their knowledge”
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