The Prosperous Leader with Jacob Engel
Jacob Engel started an organization called Yeda LLC that provides seminars and courses to entrepreneurs and business owners. His mission is to empower leaders and managers through giving them the knowledge to change and helping them implement the changes in their organizations. Before his current job, Jacob was the COO of a $200M family food and real estate enterprise. He is the author of two books: The Prosperous Leader: How Smart People Achieve Success and The Ten Commandments of Family Business Succession.\n\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\n\n- You can be a successful leader without sacrificing who you are, against all odds.\n- Develop a positive mindset\n- Get rid of ANTs (Automatic Negative Thinking). You have 50-70,000 thoughts per day. What is the effect if the majority of them are negative?\n- You are not in the (fill in the blank) business; you are in the people business?\n- There is a mindset, a skillset, and a toolset. You need to start with the mindset (positivity, people-focused, etc.).\n- Without soft skills, hard skills are not nearly as effective\n- Great leaders are great readers\n- Everybody is their own CEO. You are responsible for your own success, so get the help you need.\n- There are four fateful fears: fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of uncomfortable emotions, and fear of being wrong.\n- FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real\n\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\n\n\u2013 What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Insight from Jacob\u2019s dad: 1. Never confuse efforts for results 2. Know what you stand for, and know what you won\u2019t stand for 3. Everyone can sell a dollar for 99 cents.\n-Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \u201cA leader\u2026\u201d Creates the vision, implements the vision, and breaks the legs of those who don\u2019t want to go along with the mission. \n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? 1.What are the things I\u2019m doing that I should not be doing, 2. What are the things I\u2019m doing that you could be doing better, and 3. What are the things I\u2019m not doing that I should be doing?\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Read.\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \u201cwhy?\u201d or \u201cwhy not?\u201d \u201cWhy?\u201d based on Simon Sinek\u2019s book/TED Talk.\n\nWebsite:\nhttps://www.theprosperousleader.com\nhttps://www.prosperouscourses.com\n\nContact:\njacob@theprosperousleader.com