After achieving demonstrable successes with David, a lot of my senior people came to me and said, “I want to take a mentor.” That pleased me a great deal because our people are our greatest assets.
If business is not as good as you know it could be…you need to ponder why that is. It could be your business model, or it could me a misunderstanding of the market. But whatever the problem, the answer always lies in your people and a successful CEO has to know if his people are in the right place.
In order for a CEO to excel, he needs to know himself. What’s missing from the text book, formulaic inquiries is the question, “Who are you?” You can’t lead your people, you can’t move them forward, if you don’t know yourself.
It’s important, especially when you’re doing new business daily, to find the time to think about yourself and to understand yourself. We spend a large part of our day working and if we don’t get satisfaction, if our work is not a continuation of ourselves, conflicts can, and probably will, break out inside us. In order to understand who we are, we have to continually question ourselves. But there are always some questions you can’t even dare to ask yourself. David will ask those questions.
David is unconventional, creative, non-linear. And he is a great example of what can be achieved in non-traditional ways.
