John Asher is CEO of a sales advisory services company. In his navy career, he managed a $2 billion submarine program. In his second career, he co-founded an engineering company that grew at 42% per year for 14 straight years. His current business has provided sales workshops in 22 countries.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Elon Musk
When business started difficulties overcame:
“My personality is such I really can’t work for other people. When you take a personality assessment my need for control, desire for independence is 100%, I really need to do what I want to do when I want to do it how I want to do it under my conditions I want to do it and screw the rest of yall that’s pretty much my attitude. I knew I had to start my own business I couldn’t work for other people”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do book by Marcus Buckingham
- The Go-Giver: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea book by Bob Burg and John D. Mann
- Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food Book by Catherine Shanahan
Favourite Quote:
- “If you listen to your customers they’ll explain your business to you”
- “The definition of integrity is doing what you know you should do, the way it should be done and doing it on time”
Recommended Online Resources:
Crystal Knows – Crystal shows you the best way to communicate with any prospect, customer, or coworker based on their unique personality
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Read books. We’re in the age of disruption and change is fundamental, embracing change is fundamental. Continuous learning is obvious too, you’ve got to figure out how to get new information, whether it’s as you said before, podcasts or whether you’re reading books as you’re jogging, online books or on your kindle on the airplane whatever. You got to do it to stay up”…[Listen for More]
More About John Asher:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.” Phyllis George
Other Quotes From the Chat with John Asher:
- “If you start seeing people in one division leaving look at the manager, because based on their surveys employees will stay in a bad company with a good manager but they will not stay in a good company with a bad manager”
- “I’m trying to read a book every 2 weeks”
- “If you ain’t in the continuous learning mode you’re just going to get bypassed”
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