945: Hope Is Not a Strategy: Creating a Strategy That Works with Dan Paulson Founder and Owner of Invision Business Development

Dan Paulson, coach, author, and speaker, started InVision Development International with the purpose of helping companies find ways to meet the challenges of growth. His goal was to take a holistic approach to people, planning and process while helping senior executives create long-term, sustained change.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

• Steve Jobs
• Elon Musk

When business started difficulties overcame:

“Fear, I think is something we all deal with continuously throughout our time and as we go on in our business we tend to be able to deal with it better but the first element that we have to overcome is that whole fear quotation because there’s always the voices in your head that tell you you can’t do it and depending on how lucky or unlucky you are you have friends and family and maybe even significant others who are telling you you can’t do it” …[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box Book by The Arbinger Institute

Favourite Quote:

“Hope is not a strategy”

Recommended Online Resources:

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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Don’t give up, when I say don’t give up, hope is not a strategy, it means you find a way to make things work. There’s always an opportunity out there it’s just taking the time to find that opportunity. By not giving up it gives you a chance to look at what you are doing and what’s working well and it gives you a chance to see what’s not working so well and what you need to change. It’s looking at that change process and making it happen”…[Listen for More]

More About Dan Paulson:

InVision Development International

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“Silence beyond being the answer to fools, is sometimes the answer of fools.” Prinx Maurice

Other Quotes From the Chat with Dan Paulson:

• “There’s seeing there’s hearing there’s doing, what can I do in all 3 acts that will help me learn a new skill learn a new trade learn a new habit and apply that”
• “There is something to be said for hard work but there is a lot more to be said for smart work”
• “What I look at is really how do we simplify the process and create something that is going to be long standing and teaching them and approach so that when obstacles do come up we go back and we look at the entire thing and we try to fix it all through the way versus just where it’s broke”

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