We are speaking today with Glenn Elliott, founder of UK-based Reward Gateway, a world leader in integrated employee engagement technology with more than 1,800 clients worldwide. Reward Gateway developed the employee engagement platform, The Engagement Bridge™. Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey co-wrote their new book called: Build it: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The safety of that because I had to resign, I had to get out which a lot of people don’t, you’ve got to take that jump from the safe but maybe dull and boring corporate career to one which is full of risk and uncertainty”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing book by Daniel H. Pink
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility Book by Patty McCord
Favourite Quote:
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you say, they’ll forget what you do, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel”
- “You know what is right to do, just do it. The truth is doing what is right may not always be experience and it may not always be comfortable, but it will satisfy your soul in a way that nothing else can and it will bring you the kind of protections that body guards can’t give you. So try and live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue inertia and timidity”
Recommended Online Resources:
- YouTube – is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005.
- TED Talks – are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100 languages Ideas free to stream and download
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Get started, nothing beats starting. Don’t over think your start, get in front of customers. There’s only so much you can learn in a planning stage of being an entrepreneur, if you want to do something you need to do it, you need to do it, you’ll probably fail and it’s ok. You may make yourself poor for a little while, don’t fail in a way where you lose your home or your partner or your marriage”…[Listen for More]
More About Glenn Elliott:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man’s soul.” Joan Didion
Other Quotes From the Chat with Glenn Elliott:
- “Too many businesses do what is profitable in the short term versus what is right in the longer term”
- “Doing what would make your grandmother proud is a really good way to think about business because I kind of think it all pays off in the long term. I don’t think doing what is right has a cost I think it has a profit in the long term”
- “Whatever you produce in version 1 won’t be as good as version 10”
- “A leader’s job is to see the iceberg before it hits the titanic”
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