Justin Jones is the co-founder of Somersault Innovation and co-author with Ashley Welch of Naked Sales: How Design Thinking Reveals Customer Motives and Drives Revenue. He began his career in marketing and sales before moving into management consulting, innovation, and design. He has helped hundreds of teams apply design thinking against their toughest challenges and achieve breakthroughs.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Justin’s business partner Ashley
When business started difficulties overcame:
“We were trying to be smart and thinking about all the different variables in front of us, we were working together for another consulting firm and we tried to sort of prototype out different approaches, different ways that we could do more of the work that we really love to do which is design. The decision to do so is the most difficult decision to overcome and underneath that is the belief that it’s going to work, that you’ll be fine”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life Book by Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone ZanderFavourite Quote:
“In life you will have one of 2 things, reasons or results”
Recommended Online Resources:
Linkedin – is a business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Check yourself about what your passion is, is this something that you really believe in and to surround yourself with people who are smarter than you are, who are willing to connect and help you, those are the biggest sort of amplifiers and enablers who have led to our success, we really believe in what we’re doing and we’ve surrounded ourselves with a constellation of really bright people who will tell us the truth” …[Listen for More]
More About Justin Jones:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“An answer is an invitation to stop wondering.” Riemann 2003
Other Quotes From the Chat with Justin Jones:
- “If what you’re seeing in your own life isn’t what you want, there’s really one person who’s going to change that”
- “You got to care about what you do”
- “When you’re an entrepreneur its’ all about you getting out of bed each day and really doing something that you feel committed to so if you’re not feeling excited by what you’re doing, if you don’t believe that it can make a difference, nobody else will be either”
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