Winston Churchill Business Startup Entrepreneurship Lessons Learned Show 061

Winston Churchill Business Startup Entrepreneurship Lessons Learned Show 061

If I could interview someone Winston Churchill would top on my list and as business owners, startups and those wanting to learn lessons of entrepreneurship you must listen up to today's show 061.

Winston Churchill was a soldier, a historian, a statesman, a knight, a painter, a bricklayer, and every bit a smart-aleck a war leader and one of my hero's

On today’s show learn Why Study Winston Churchill?

What are we going to discuss -

lessons learned - > it is not just what he said with so many awesome quotes but what he did!

So many life lessons:

-> Where you start means little compared to where you finish.

-> Bold action and good fortune can lead to remarkable circumstances.

-> Even great men have bills to worry about.

-> Personality can shine from small things

Winston Churchill taught business owners, startups, entrepreneurs taught everyday business startup entrepreneurial success.

You don’t want to be a Neville Chamberlain in business -

as an entrepreneur, you do not want to be someone who is merely willing to just go along to get along

your business strategy should not be one of appeasement merely planning out of Fear

What did Churchill teach us about one of the most important characteristics you must have as a business owner?

Courage-

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

I always tell my younger daughter she is the voice that others don't have - when it comes to your business you are it's the biggest fan you must promote it and act as a raving fan but when surrounding yourself with a team, outside advisors and customers you also have to be willing to also listen up

Churchill was big on - > Taking action and executing on his plans!

He would put red labels on all his documents with the words “Action this day”

His mantra was - >

I never ‘worry’ about action but only about inaction”

His Management style during World War II!

I often ask what would have happened had Churchill, not Chamberlain was Prime Minister in 1937 but I am so thankful he did in 1940! If not this world would look a lot different then it does today

Communication skills are critical to success :

For example, In addition to Churchill's actions of communicating regularly to his top team of commanders in the field, another critical characteristic for business success and what Churchill was great at was his speedy resolutions he demanded that colleagues and staff all signed up for total commitment and action

We all heard of people that throughout life make things happen and certainly I knew my dad as someone like that but Winston Churchill in a huge way was someone throughout his life that made things happen especially given that this world needed someone just like during the critical time in the history of the World

Churchill was Relentlessly driven and focused

For example, During World War, he had personal challenges yet he demanded personal bravery in the face of not only physical danger but also intense mental battles

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Four key life principles to remember as they apply to you, your family and business and stories about how they also apply to the life of Winston Churchill:

How you start out in business doesn't tell us much versus how you finish - 

This relates to Winston - When Churchill was young he not only failed to set the academic world on fire, “I did not do well in examinations. This was especially true of my Entrance Examination to Harrow. I wrote my name at the top of the page. I wrote down the number of the question. Thereafter I could not think of anything connected with it that was either relevant or true. I gazed for two whole hours at this sad spectacle: and then merciful ushers collected my piece of foolscap with all the others and carried it up to the Headmaster's table. “

Despite the stumbling start, as Boris Johnson points out, Churchill ran a race few of us could dream of matching: producing more published words than Shakespeare and Dickens combined, winning the Nobel Prize for literature, serving in every gre