A Microsoft engineer alum, sought-after public speaker and author of the #1-selling Power BI book, Rob Collie and his team are relentlessly committed to “the new way forward,” making P3 a leading consulting firm in the industry, pioneering an agile, results-first methodology that bucks the traditional BI company model.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
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When business started difficulties overcame:
“I sort of started this business in slow motion in a way. So, I had the idea that it needed to be done in 2010. That’s when the idea hit me beginning of 2010 but the world wasn’t ready yet. It wasn’t like there was a market for this new agile BI, no one was going to buy get, it was to renegade, it was too new. And so instead I went and took a CTO job at a start-up that was willing to bet on this stuff. So, we were going to use this as our platform for the start-up”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Also mentioned
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead book by Brene Brown
Favourite Quote:
- Charlie Munger says in the essay that he thinks he’s always been in the top five percent of his age cohort in his entire life in terms of understanding the power of incentives… At the same time, he says in all of my life I have underestimated it. Never a year passes that I don’t get some surprise that pushes my limit little further…
Also mentioned:
- “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” Groucho Marx.
- “Winning covers a multitude of sins. If you play bad and you still win, everyone says that’s the sign of a good ballclub. But when you play bad and you lose, all of a sudden you have problems and everyone wants to know why.” B. J. Armstrong
- “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“’one of the first things you need to do in order to succeed at anything new is to get over the advice everyone gives you that it can’t be done’ I’m butchering it in terms of the letter of the quote but the spirit of the quote is exactly that… You have to believe in what you are doing. If you don’t believe in it probably didn’t even start. But if you are not a believer you properly don’t want to be in this business, you properly don’t want to be in the business of starting things. And you do have to even after you have sort of planted your foot and said okay, I am doing this then you have to whether all of the criticism that is going to be levelled at you because now you have put your hat in the ring, you have made your bet, you are now a target for criticism in a way that you are not when you are just considering doing something or talking about it… The criticisms don’t end. The doubts don’t end when you start. In fact, they really once you are in, once you start building this thing that’s when you are really going to be tested. Your faith is really going to be tested… You are going to have to be okay with looking foolish sometimes”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” Joss Whedon
Other Quotes From the Chat with Rob Collie:
- “the lessons that you learn are lessons you don’t really learn when you hear them you learn them later”
- “anyone that has gone to the trouble to study the history of large numbers of start-ups and extracted pearls of wisdom I wish I had sort of absorbed those a little bit more deeply before I sort of got clobbered with the truth of them later”
- “I definitely don’t have everything figured out… You have got to be comfortable with knowing that you haven’t got everything figured out… You can’t use it as an excuse to not know things”
- “I think there is a real strong gravitational pull”
- “the things that got you here don’t get so excited about those, don’t make those the same thing as your identity… Sometimes if you sort of keep bluffing that you can continue to be successful. People will fall in line behind it for sure. But there is a hubris to it… And hubris is vulnerability… Never be complete because you aren’t. It’s just a question of whether you think you are”
- “when it comes to building a team and going for success in anything if you get the incentives right for the members of the team, if you get the incentives structured properly most other things are going to take care of themselves. If you get the incentives wrong or you don’t have sufficient incentives almost nothing you do is going to matter”
- “winning covers a lot of sins”
- “it helps to read about any organisation that’s under a lot of competitive pressure from a historical standpoint and see some of the forensics about why that mindset thrived or why it vanished”
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