243: Application Without Information Leads to Frustration with Jean-Guy (JG) Francoeur CEO of Black Card Books and Founder of the Visture Property Group

Jean-Guy  (JG) Francoeur is the CEO of Black Card Books and President and Founder of the Visture Property Group. He is also the author of  the book MESSY Manager. JG has been featured on the Success Today TV Show, the TODAY Show, ABC News, Sky News Australia, and in Entrepreneur Magazine and he has written hundreds of articles for international business publications.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

Jean-Guy  (JG) Francoeur’s business partner
Steve Jobs
Warren Buffet
Tony Robbins
Richard Branson

When business started difficulties overcame:

“All of them Neil, all of them, I remember one time specific, my wife and I got home from a meeting and times were tough, boy times were tough and money was tight, when you’re starting a business you put everything you have into that business so money was super tight and I came home with a coffee, just a coffee from the store, I remember the coffee had cost me  a dollar 22, I will always remember because my wife and I got in a massive argument because we didn’t have the dollar 22 to spend on that coffee, that’s one instance”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t Book by Jim Collins
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant Book by W Chan Kim

Favourite Quote:

“When it gets tough for everyone else, it gets just about right for me” His mentor

Recommended Online Resources:

None said

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Go and sell, or go and get a job, a lot of people today they don’t want to sell and they want to sit behind a computer they want to check face book and watch the sales come in, that is a dream, that does not exist”…[Listen for More]

More About Jean-Guy  (JG) Francoeur:

Black Card Books

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.” Otto von Bismarck

Other Quotes From the Chat with Jean-Guy  (JG) Francoeur:

• “I don’t understand how can you write a book? You have to be an authority before you can write a book, you have to be credible before you write a book, he said no, it’s the other way around, write the book and then you will be credible, write the book and then you will have authority”
• “Doubt is the only constant”
• “Hire slow and fire fast”
• “Application without information leads to frustration”

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