When asked about Apple’s “overnight success”, Steve Jobs explained that it was 18 years in the making. Sometimes we make success look too easy and the real gold is in the lessons learned and the many mistakes we make on our way to reaching success.
A decade and a half ago Rob Gilfillan and I found ourselves in a peer advisory group with many other early stage business founders. As young leaders, we were full of vim and vigor and our businesses took as much time or more as the young families we had started and were raising simultaneously. We always have had a lot in common: we were people driven leaders, led sales and marketing for our firms and we might have been a touch or two overconfident. We just knew we were going to grow our firms and become wildly successful.
Fast forward to today and now I’m sitting with Rob to learn more about his incredible personal and business journey with his firm Cenero. Today Cenero is a large multi-region technology innovation firm- they design, build, service multimedia systems for a company's meeting rooms and office space. An already in demand service, now front and center with work-from-home and hybrid arrangements now in vogue. Check out this week’s episode of Outside Insights where Rob shares his journey, his failures and his lessons learned so that our community can learn from them.
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PS - Rob recommends a gem of an app called Headway. The app includes short summaries of popular business books. As a reader and knowledge guy, I am hooked! I suggest you check it out too if you always wish you had more time in the day to finish your reading list.
