David Nour is a senior leadership advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author. David is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. He is the author of eleven books, including bestsellers Relationship Economics®, Co-Create, and Curve Benders.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“One is capital. So, I didn’t have a rich uncle, I didn’t have a whole lot of wealth…Capital and didn’t have it so I borrowed from my American Express credit card to meet payroll. I’ve borrowed from family and friends when cash flow stinks… Number two is talent. The biggest mistakes I made early on, a lot of entrepreneurs make, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, developing talent may not be your biggest strength. So, you need to find someone where that is their strength and they all willing and able to do that with you”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiechel
Favourite Quote:
“throwaway your stopwatch and get a compass”
Recommended Online Resources:
CEOExpress: Content Aggreagator – Business portal for executives created by a busy executive
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“beyond your educational foundation, beyond your professional pedigree your most valuable asset and you are only strategic and sustainable differentiator is your portfolio of relationships. So become more intentional, become more strategic, become more quantifiable in the relationship you choose to invest in. And that advice is as relevant inside your organisation as it is external to it”…[Listen for More]
More About David Nour:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You can’t have a million dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.” Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with David Nour:
- “Most people really don’t understand what it really takes. I call them wanntrapreneurs. They like the idea of they want to be an entrepreneur. They like the idea of being an entrepreneur. They don’t realise what it really takes. So, I am in all of every entrepreneur who just through sheer tenacity, through just absolute resolve says I’m going to find a way, I’m going to go through that wall if I have to but I am going to find a way. To overcome just this barrage, relentless barrage of naysayers and negative people who sucked the life out of you. And customers who say no, partners and say no, bankers who say no. No might as well become your middle name because that’s what it takes to really get ahead”
- “Get a lot more focused on your ideal relationship profile and do not get distracted by the shiny objects… Oh squirrel. Do not get distracted by things that look and sound great but they are just going to be a bandwidth suck and just take you off track.”
- “One of the misperceptions for a lot of entrepreneurs… I want more, I want more customers, I want more visibility, I want more social media followers, I want more prospects, I want more pipeline, I want more. I am starting to realise that is a huge fallacy because I would rather have five committed employees than 50 indifferent ones. I would rather have five amazing clients, and profitable clients, and find clients who get the value of what I bring than 50 who couldn’t care less. I jokingly call it the Jerry Maguire business model. What if we focused on fewer but deeper relationships? What if we focused on fewer but more authentic relationships? What if we focused on fewer but more impactful relationships? Could you build a dramatically more profitable business with fewer but amazing products? Fewer but amazing clients who are in your back yard? This would just baffle my mind that some entrepreneurs will get on a plane or drive across country and yet they are ignoring phenomenal attention clients in their own backyard. It’s like what’s wrong with you you just trying to waste time, effort, money or what? There is people in your own backyard that you are ignoring”
- “Humility… I’ve always believed confidence is I know a lot but there is still a lot I can learn. Arrogance is I know a lot but there is nothing new I can learn. So the humility to say I am a lifelong learner. Humility to listen to what very early on could be conflicting voices, could be dissenting voices….”
- “It doesn’t matter how fast we do anything what matters is how we going in the right direction”
- “Come for the content stay for the community”
Leave a Reply