Chad Anselmo - Hope and Hard Work: The Superpowers of Doers

Jumping in, taking everything, and working hard to explore your
limits. In today's episode, Chad Anselmo shares the first lesson
he learned. Chad is an alumnus of the David Eccles School of
Business. He is the CEO and founder of F1 Payments, an enterprise
focused on accelerating business velocity for all parties in the
payments ecosystem.


Chad begins the episode by discussing perseverance through his
experience as a fresh graduate during the financial crisis and
recession. Right after he graduated from the Eccles school, he
had to change his plans and direction. Having tried his hand at
employment in a venture capital that failed, he got his restart
as a credit and collections officer at Universal Studios.
Discover how he innovated and automated systems to achieve
success at Universal. 


He discusses the role hope plays in reaching one's goals. Listen
to what he has to say about handling growth, the surge of
clients, and massive changes in the workplace. Find out how they
became one of Texas Monthly's Best Companies to Work For. Don't
miss his discussion of the culture of integrity and
accountability his team built.


This week's show is all about persevering through obstacles,
building and maintaining tools to be able to contribute to our
relationships. Take a step back, examine your goal's guideposts,
and keep going!
Episode Quotes:

On how they manage work from home during the
pandemic:


“We determined that productivity was just fine from working from
home versus working in the office. We've had a very flexible
policy since then, if you feel comfortable coming into the
office, come into the office, we'd love to see you. If you feel
more comfortable working at home and not having to brave commute
then stay at home do that. Now having said that, we have
accountability. No one gets a free pass on making sure they get
their job done, but really we want people to feel comfortable and
be able to feel like they have the best opportunity to be able to
be successful.”


His thoughts on perseverance:


“We're all persevering through something and as we think about
the obstacles in front of us, we ask, “How do we build and
maintain tools to be able to look at how effective and efficient
we are?” As well as how much we're contributing to our
relationships in our lives? That to me is what perseverance is.
Taking a step back, looking at your guideposts, making sure that
you're between them, and then continuing on that journey of
trying to get to your goals.”


What does he think of having hope as one of the school’s
core values?


“Hope is, I think, germane to everything we're trying to
accomplish. Like we hope for a good outcome. We hope to be able
to make it. We hope to be able to have success. We hope for all
these things. Now we put in place, good things to be able to
allow us to be able to accomplish those things. Either process,
people, relationships, or whatever to be able to accomplish it.
But in the end, I think it's hope that drives humanity.”
Books He’s Been Reading:

How to Become CEO by Jeffrey Fox

Necromancer

Projects He’s Involved With:

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