Driven by his desire to expose the talent of quieter businesspeople, Jon Baker has become known for activating introverts. With his quietly confident attitude to challenges and vision of balanced teams Jon inspires business leaders to take action to improve productivity and creativity in their firms.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“When I started first of all there was the ‘am I good enough?’ What I called the impostor syndrome. Can I do this? And it’s easy to say yes of course you can. But that’s fine, I’d be going through that and saying well I must be the only person and everything is this. I’ve now realised that any time I anybody I am working with says to me I am the only one, the vesting to realise is you are not. So, at the time I was the only one who had… name any problems that you like ”…[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:
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose” Dr. Seuss
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“stop blaming people around you and recognise that it’s your choice that makes things happen… The most powerful two words in the English language, ‘ I choose’”…[Listen for More]
More About Jon Baker:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing.” Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jon Baker:
- “I tend not to look back at things and go if only this and if only that. I tend to always look forward”
- “Introverts tend to be very reflective and introspective by nature. However positive and useful that can be at times it’s very easy for it to become negative. I almost guard against looking back and go, if I didn’t have that I could have change that, or I used to, or I did that, and I wouldn’t do that ”
- “Go for it when you are ready to go for it rather than stopping and waiting and going need to learn more, I need to learn more technical skills… Quite often it’s what are you avoiding and that’s the bit we need to focus on rather than the bit you are already doing well on”
- “I believe in a direction rather than a goal”
- “What are the habits that are useful for you right now that will help you to keep stepping in that direction… Those habits are who I become”
- “You are what you do every single day”
- “You can’t learn to swim by reading a book”
- “We all need to realise that we are the people that choose. We choose the direction we going, stop blaming everything else all the things around us, stop blaming the team, stop blaming the people we employ, stop blaming the customers. We choose, we create what’s around us and that’s what we’ve got to work with”
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