Episode 89 – Alec Stern – Leaders on Leadership

Tremendous Leadership with Dr. Tracey Jones

For episode 89 of the Tremendous Leadership podcast, we dive into our Leaders on Leadership podcast by interviewing the brilliant Alec Stern. Alec Stern is an entrepreneur, speaker, mentor, and investor. He has become known as "America's Startup Success Expert" for performing hundreds of keynote speeches worldwide, for his popular sessions, and a 2-time Visionary Award winner at top conferences.

He's been a co-founder or founding team member of 8 startups with 5 exits - 2 IPOs and 3 acquisitions. As a primary member of Constant Contact's founding team, Alec was one of the original 3 who started the company in an attic. Alec was with the company for 18 years from start-up to IPO, to a $1.1 Billion-dollar acquisition. Listen in for Tremendous insights on leadership and real-world application.

Links:

More about Alec http://www.alecspeaks.com

Tremendous Leadership podcast www.tremendousleadership.com/pages/podcast

The Price of Leadership https://tremendousleadership.com/products/price-of-leadership-life-changing-classics-volume-xi

Quotes:

“If you’re a leader, you will lead regardless of what you’re called.” – Alec Stern

“It becomes lonely when you are giving off responsibilities of certain areas.” – Alec Stern

“Creating opportunity means giving something up in order to start something new.” – Alec Stern

“When you start something in Venture Capital, typically the board is going to bring someone in who is going to be the adult supervision.” – Alec Stern

“When I meet startups, there are red flags that I look out for. If there is one person in charge trying to do it all, or if there are three people all trying to run the business.” – Alec Stern

“You have to be flexible when working in a startup environment.” – Alec Stern

“We have to seek counsel about our obstacles.” – Alec Stern

“You have to develop the muscle memory to knock down your obstacles.” – Alec Stern

“When you get established in your own lane, the challenges don’t go away, they get bigger.” – Alec Stern

“It’s hard to look at it from a 10,000 foot perspective when you’re in the weeds.” – Alec Stern

“It’s one thing to show up, but it’s another to be present and participate.” – Alec Stern

“Hire your replacement.” – Alec Stern

“If we’re going to have a vision conversation, we have to have a mission conversation.” – Alec Stern

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