Jonathan Goldhill is a masterful business coach and personal strategist specializing in guiding next-generation leaders of family businesses to scale up their business as they take control over the leadership and ownership of the family business. Jonathan left New York for California at age 20 after his family’s large, privately-held men’s apparel manufacturing company—started by his great-grandfather—sold to a conglomerate in its third generation of family ownership. Within ten years, Jonathan had established himself as the go-to expert for entrepreneurs looking to find their version of freedom. Today, Jonathan brings thirty years of experience to his clients advising, coaching, consulting, training, and guiding entrepreneurial and family businesses.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Jonathan’s Grandfather
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I started this business in earnest in 2000 but I had a few of the goals of it which were as a consultant. Those were probably in between employment opportunities. And I think that probably the biggest difficulty I had to overcome was working on my mindset and motivation. Having the confidence that I knew I could do it and applying myself and not listening to the other voices that other people were maybe feeding me. I think it was mindset is probably just the biggest thing in something I’ve helped so many small businesses on need”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Jack: Straight from the Gut Book by Jack Welch and John A. Byrne
- Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t Book by Verne Harnish
- Gino Wickman Books
Favourite Quote:
“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” Richard Buckminster Fuller
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google LLC – is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Scaling Up focuses on the four major decisions every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash
- EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System for Businesses, home of Traction tools & library. The Entrepreneurial Operating System EOS helps owners and leadership teams create healthier, stronger businesses and achieve powerful results
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“reach out, find the kind of support that you might need and enter an accountability group, a peer group so you are learning from others and don’t try to go it alone. Entrepreneurs need to mitigate their risk and you do that by getting the input and feedback and advice of others. You may have a coach in addition to that but listening to other people. My business School Professor when I was there at school 30 years ago had an eleventh commandment which he said ‘thou shall not bullshit thyself’. So, my best advice is so yourself with other people so they call you on your bullshit”…[Listen for More]
More About Jonathan Goldhill:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Rumi
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jonathan Goldhill:
- “you have got to have the mindset you can do it and that you must do it”
- “what I didn’t understand about business is that business has a process and a pattern. When I was an early entrepreneur and I started a clothing business in Venice California I didn’t really understand all of the processes and pattern and structure. And so, if I had had a mentor who had showed me what that looked like and could give me the big picture, I think I would have gotten where I want to get much faster in life”
- “the secrets to success… So, I think that knowing yourself first is probably one of them. If you don’t know who you are then you don’t really know what your limitations are so you have to be able to recognise your blind spots and you have to know what your strengths are. And you have to know where you are not strong, how to identify others who can be strong”
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