Curtis L Odom Dr. Curtis Odom is the President of Stuck On Start Coaching, and the author of four books including his newest release, From Campus to Corner Office. Prior to Stuck On Start, he worked in the field of talent management with Fortune 500 companies.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had to change my mindset from being an employee and being someone who was 9-5 9-9 whatever that was for someone else and tying to fit in with a culture that maybe was something I felt I could do or wanted to do. I had to change my thinking, the biggest thing was overcoming my thinking that the fact that there was someone else to blame to praise any success that came my way”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice Book by Alan Weiss
- The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Book by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan
Favourite Quote:
“To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Be willing to fail and be willing to try to try it again. I know that sounds cliché but that really is a secret sauce to being an entrepreneur, you’re going to fail over and over again but if you see failure as a setback you can’t really move forward. I see failure as learning and it goes back to my second quote from Churchill, success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm”…[Listen for More]
More About Curtis L Odom:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.” Eliyahu Goldratt
Other Quotes From the Chat with Curtis L Odom:
- “Success is a thing you’re chasing, you’re not going to find it immediately but you have to believe deep in your mind deep in your heart deep in your soul that you will get there absolutely indefinitely”
- “What is the one thing I need to be doing right now?”
- “There’s a whole host of things that I could be doing right now, there are a lot of things that maybe I should be doing right now, but there is only thing that I must be doing right now”
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