Dr. Stephen Long is the founder & president of Motere Consulting, a performance enhancement firm providing management assessment and management development services specializing in human performance, leadership effectiveness, talent optimization and strategic execution. Dr. Stephen Long has unlocked the potential of exceptional leaders, champion athletes, fighter pilots, military special operations personnel, elite producers and corporate executives through his statistically based predictive model of Human Performance & Leadership. His model has been successfully applied to thousands of people and dozens of organizations in business, military, academics, athletics and the arts. His clients average 115% improvement in financial performance on average with a zero failure rate.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Stephen’s Father
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think I’ve always been an entrepreneur in some shape. But just coming from academia as an academic I had to prove that my services could be applied to business because once you put the term PhD Doctor of some institution of higher education then people think that it’s theoretical and its basic and it’s not practical or applied… When I left the academy and started speaking with business people that was the biggest objection. So, I had to tell them I am an applied person and all the research that I have everything is empirically proven but it’s proven through field research…”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Principles: Life and Work Book by Ray DalioFavourite Quote:
“Talent Is Equally Distributed, But Opportunity Is Not”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Conduct the research yourself
- Rely on primary sources only
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“learn how you work best. What are your tendencies? But it’s hard work for entrepreneurs because they are so action oriented most of the time. Because learning how you work best is a fairly introspective process so that’s a challenge for most entrepreneurs. But I can guarantee it will pay off for them”…[Listen for More]
More About Stephen Long:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” Bobby Unser
Other Quotes From the Chat with Stephen Long:
- “there is also something called negative role models…”
- “If I would have done one thing, I would have started to listen to podcasts a lot earlier. I find podcasts to be such a great source of inspiration and knowledge”
- “you’ve got to love what you do. There’s got to be a passion about it. And this is one of the things about entrepreneurs is that it really comes down to what’s known as intrinsic motivation… Making money in itself is an intrinsic desire and how you do that sometimes doesn’t really matter as long as it’s obviously ethical and above board. But making money can be just as satisfying as anything else”
- “I try to provide opportunities for people to gain the knowledge that I’ve gained so they can improve not only their business but also their lives. Talent is not the great leveller it’s opportunities”
- “I don’t trust online resources. What I suggest to people is that you either conduct the research yourself in house or rely on primary sources only. And that’s what I see with a lot of online resources is that they are just relaying other people’s information”
- “there is no way for people to improve unless they are absolutely honest not only myself but with themselves. And so that’s where it starts. It starts on a foundation of trust and without trust nothing else occurs.”
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