320: Find out Who You Are and Where You Excel with Doug Kisgen Founder and Owner of Kisgen Group and Author of Rethink Happy

Doug Kisgen is a serial entrepreneur, organizational consultant, and author of Rethink Happy. His current company, Kisgen Group, works with entrepreneurs and executives to help them reach their goals. Doug has been an EO member since 2010 and is a graduate of the EO-sponsored Entrepreneurial Master’s Program (EMP) hosted by MIT.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

Every entrepreneur is a role model

When business started difficulties overcame:

“Cash was a deterrent to get things started, fear of failure, I had some kids in the late 1990s and early 2000s and once you have a wife and children your risk tolerance tends to go down so taking a leap of faith”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Book by Cal Newport
• Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm Book by Verne Harnish
• Scaling Up Book by Verne Harnish

Favourite Quote:

“The man who has god and everything else does not have more than the person who has god and nothing else”
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t you’re right” Henry Ford

Recommended Online Resources:

Evernote – Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with Evernote Your thoughts are always with you, always accessible, always in sync

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Make sure you don’t stay on an island that you look into organisations or others out there that are beacons of light to those who are going through the challenging and very difficult journey of being an entrepreneur, you don’t have to do it yourself”…[Listen for More]

More About Doug Kisgen:

Rethink Happy
Kisgen Group

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers from listening to others reactions” Jeremy Aldana

Other Quotes From the Chat with Doug Kisgen:

• “Know yourself”
• “Who are you, what are you really good at, why do you want to start a business, what’s the purpose behind it and what are your gaps”
• “What are the qualities you need to hire for that complement who you are”
• “Find someone who’s 10 times, 20 times your aspiration and shoot them an email”
• “Find out who you are and where you excel”

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