Dr Jeffrey Hull is an executive coach, psychologist and author of the best-selling book, FLEX: The Art and Science of Leadership in A Changing World, from Penguin-Random House. He is a Clinical Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Education at the Institute of Coaching at Harvard.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Denis Payre and Bernard Liautaud Co-founders of BusinessObjects
When business started difficulties overcame:
“we had three founders and there was conflict between the three of us. And so, the two of us that remain had to go through the painful process of extricating our third partner from the start-up of the business. That was really challenging because he was a friend and I wanted to retain the friendship but also had to let him know that it wasn’t going to work. So that was a painful process”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. GerberFavourite Quote:
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” Albert Einstein
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“I think the key to success is creating, as I said earlier, Creating the tribe. And when you go to create the tribe, and the tribe can be one, two, three, four… Soon as it gets to be more than two it’s a tribe. To make sure that you know yourself and you choose people that fill in your gaps that compliments you. They know something that you don’t know. So, you have got to be humble… To recognise you need other people in your tribe who know more than you do”…[Listen for More]
More About Jeffrey Hull:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You can do anything you set your mind to.” Benjamin Franklin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jeffrey Hull:
- “I think the learning curve is sort of unavoidable. And maybe that one thing I would have known that I wish I would have known then was that there would really be a learning curve in the sense that I went into the framing and starting of my business thinking that it was going to be linear… It was going to be pretty straightforward and simple. We just needed collateral; we were a service business so we need to market ourselves. I was just so unaware of how jagged the line is. So, I just think having that awareness is what I would have appreciated”
- “to be able to have resilience and go with the fits and starts rather than feel so much of the pain of the fits and starts that come from starting a business”
- “the key secret to success is recognising that companies that grow are ultimately a result of the vision that may have started with one person or two people. But it’s building a tribe, it’s about building a community of people. And you can use the word team, you can use the word community, you can use the word tribe. But at the end of the day, it’s the evolution from me to we”
- “there’s really no such thing as an entrepreneur. A business is made up of the whole set of roles: a leader, an accountant, a salesperson, a marketing person, visionary, skilled whatever the skill is… And it’s a multifaceted paradigm that makes companies successful not a single thing called an entrepreneur – that’s the myth. That is such a profound learning”
- “when I run into an obstacle at a very deep problematic stage that rather than looking for the solution the key to success is I think to reframe the question- to recognise that you are asking the wrong question or you may be asking the wrong question”
- “the key to success is self-awareness”
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