For more than two and a half decades, it has been my duty to help executives sleep better at night by improving their business processes and increasing their profitability. As a marketing and technology industry executive, the past 20 years have kept me active creating and leading marketing initiatives while providing critical technology resources to the Internet services industry. I performed my responsibilities exceptionally well as chief of an industry-leading company.
While I am currently very engaged in my work and not presently seeking new opportunities, I wrote this so we may each discover if I fit with your team – just in case. First, I’ll share three unshakable principles I have found invaluable in my career. Those principles are as follows:
- Confidence means knowing you are good at something, while arrogance means forgetting other people are, too. Never be arrogant!
- Recognizing and cultivating talents and motivations of others leads to much greater success than seeking only individual objectives. That’s what teamwork is about!
- If you must sum up your business ideology in a single word, “Integrity” should be an easy conclusion. Without integrity, everything else fails!
Strategic, creative, and mathematically sound “big thinking” is imperative to building business success. Properly planned big thinking is one of the greatest assets of a company, and it comes from its people. I learned this fact a long time ago, and it has provided me the guidance to cultivate the talents and motivations of my work teams. These leadership principles change people’s lives and transform companies – and without this, even the best ideas will fail at execution.
Creating the best strategy for your organization begins with leadership that has the right experience, knowledge, and durability to discover the right questions. Without knowing the appropriate questions to address, the answers will never be optimal.
This is a story of who I am, professionally and personally, including what others say about me. If we make a good match, and you need my help, I will enjoy hearing from you.
My Professional Life
I started my first company while my peers were planning their prom dates – and it was a great success. I worked very hard to learn what builds business – and also the pitfalls to avoid. I studied carefully and practiced my creative and analytic talents. I was fortunate to discover my limitations, too. That is when I studied how to recognize and develop the talents of others. This knowledge has produced many valuable success-building lessons.
I’ve done many of the things people believed “can’t be done”. By the time my peers were graduating college, I had built a successful company and negotiated equity in multiple others. I attribute that success to having vision, backed with creativity and experience – but most of all, embracing the talents and motivations of others.
I have enjoyed more than twenty years in executive management, business ownership, and marketing consulting. During that time, I learned how to reach the right people with the solutions appropriate for them. I also learned how to emphasize this objective and bring out the best results from team members.
What Do Others Have to Say?
Rather than only talk about myself, I welcome you to have a look at what others say about me.
My Personal Life
I am husband to a devoted wife, Peggy, and a proud father to Simon Aaron (14), Madeline Elizabeth (12), Jack Walden (8), and Jude David (4). As if that was not enough to keep me busy, I am also a race car driver, book author, blog writer, and motorcycle rider.
My family is my greatest inspirational asset, and my legacy. I am earnestly involved in my children’s growth and education, and I enjoy my time at their school. In fact, the school lunchroom is my favorite neighborhood restaurant. I know that their best lessons will come from their family experience, so I do my best to live my life in a way that inspires leadership by example.
Although I list racing cars and authoring books as personal endeavors, there is also a lot of business to the fun. I am a competitive race car driver, and I have provided training and coaching to many accomplished drivers. This has taught me a lot about competition, and working with competitors in appropriate ways – even when pride is in the balance, and even at 170 miles per hour!
I have also greatly enjoyed my writing career, and its emphasis on the value of doing things which benefit others. I chose to write books because I felt I had useful knowledge to offer. What I gained is an even greater appreciation of commitment to working with other people’s goals and objectives in mind.
These personal aspects of my life have each provided me with joy, but they have also come with significant commitments. They are certainly more than just hobbies, but like any work that comes from passion, the work comes much easier. These have been works that emphasize personal improvement and always striving to be better.
Here is an in-car video of my work at one of my other jobs.
Let’s talk. You may call me on my direct line at *REDACTED DUE TO AGING WEBSITE* (*REDACTED DUE TO AGING WEBSITE*), email me, or Skype to username murnahan. If I am busy, I will respond as soon as I become available.