Joshua Spodek, bestselling author of Leadership Step by Step, is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, a leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, a columnist for Inc., and founder of SpodekAcademy. He helped build a satellite for NASA, co-founded and led several ventures, and holds six patents.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Not asked
When business started difficulties overcame:
“There was a big problem for me in graduate school, when I started, I loved physics there was Galileo, Mouton, and Einstein and eventually there’d be Spodek and the practice of physics today is not like it was before, it used to be, you could build your own experiment with tools and with your hands and now the LHC is 10s maybe 100s of thousands of people, maybe a hundred countries over decades, you’re just this tiny little cog, it wasn’t what I wanted to do and so I felt trapped, I felt like what can I do with a physics degree”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in Book by Roger Fisher and William Ury
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity Book by David Allen
Favourite Quote:
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, concerning all acts of initiative and creation there’s one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plan, that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too, all sorts of things occur to help one that would never have occurred, whole stream of events issue from the decision raising in all manner of one’s unforeseen incidents and meeting and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way, whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it”
Recommended Online Resources:
Freeplane – free mind mapping and knowledge management software.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“As someone who teaches and learns experientially, the biggest thing is that, there’s this big myth that you’re either born with it or you’re not and everyone I’ve ever come across in history or personal experience, they’ve learned what they did through doing things and in terms of leadership and business skills and things like that so If you see someone who has skills that you wish that you had, I recommend not in any way believing oh they were just born that way on the contrary they learned it from something, they had an experience that taught them this”…[Listen for More]
More About Joshua Spodek:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.” James Altucher, The Rich Employee
Other Quotes From the Chat with Joshua Spodek:
- “If you have a dream, they’d rather help you then go without a dream and so once you take initiative and start acting on something, people start wanting to help you”
- “If you’re walking through a crowd and you’re like excuse me sorry pardon me, people get annoyed at you and they don’t get out of your way, but if you stride through confidently people see you and they get out of your way and they’re like oh you got something to do? Please by all means go past and if you live your life that way, things happen, people help you, people want you to succeed because they’d rather have you succeed than no one succeed”
- “Leaders follow also”
- “If someone has something that you don’t have, find out what got them that and give that to yourself”
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