The Importance of Being Dishonest

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At Blockbuster, Carl Icahn was a fantastic activist investor in most cases. I've worked with startups to fortune 500s and even Warren Buffet himself. Marshall Goldsmith has a great saying that what got you here won't get you there. And so we literally rebuilt and pivoted the entire business after getting to the multi-million dollar Inc. 5000 list for two years in a row.

From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Peter Kozodoy is the author of Honest to Greatness, an Inc. 5000 serial entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and business coach who works with organizations and their leaders to help them overcome self-limiting bullsh*t and use brutal honesty to achieve massive success.

Top 3 Vlaue Bombs:

1. Lack of honesty in a variety of ways is a serious matter.

2. You have to stop lying to yourself about what you want and what it takes to get there.

3. It just isn't going to pay to be anything but honest and transparent.

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