Cara Silletto is the Founder & President of Crescendo Strategies, a firm committed to reducing unnecessary employee turnover. She earned her MBA in Entrepreneurship at the University of Louisville and started her own business in 2012. Today, she is a highly-sought-after national speaker and consultant on retention and understanding the Millennial mindset.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Speakers
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had no specific path in mind, so it was very difficult for me to focus on a certain area and pinpoint where we wanted to go, I had one college professor who called me an opportunist and said you have never met an opportunity you didn’t like so that’s great on one hand but that’s also terrible on the other hand because I chased a lot of different ideas in my first year”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Nice Girls Don’t Get The Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers Book by Lois P. Frankel PhDFavourite Quote:
“Act your wage” Dave Ramsay
Recommended Online Resources:
Business Systems Summit – 30 Experts Share Their Best Systems, Processes Checklists A 2 Day Online Summit On How To Systemise Scale Your Business
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Listen more, talk less, my first mentor told me over and over and over again you have 2 ears and one mouth for a reason so I think a lot of people who have entrepreneurial spirit, we tend to be a bit more extroverted, more social in a lot of ways, so we want to go out and tell everybody about this great thing that we’re doing and through my sales training and through my 5 years now as a business owner, an entrepreneur, I have learned that we have been much more successful when I ask good questions”…[Listen for More]
More About Cara Silletto:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The simplest questions are the most profound.” Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Cara Silletto:
- “Listen to the market and find a problem that hasn’t been solved yet, if you’re just going to have a great idea that you want to work on you don’t know if other people want that problem solved or if they even think it’s a problem and most importantly if they’re willing to pay to solve the problem. We have a lot of problems out there in the world that people would like to solve it but it’s not worth the price tag”
- “It’s very very difficult to grow if you have a negative outlook”
“The more people who know who you are the more support you’re going to have, the more resources you’re going to have”
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