How His Mistake Embezzling Computer Parts Made Him Homeless | Steve Teare, PagePipe

The Professional Confessional

Serial entrepreneur Steve Teare's core mistake led him to embezzle computer parts and plunged him into homelessness before he could pick up the pieces.

• Steve's big mistake was his lack of awareness of his own personality, and how it could compromise his values to the point where he embezzled computer parts from his company suppliers. Even after repaying the theft, Steve had to hit rock-bottom homelessness before he lucked into a greater understanding of his innate personality traits and how they could influence his professional behaviors and personal values
• To compensate, Steve suggests several strategies: The first of which is to actively study your own personality type and valued priorities. Then you should, if possible, pursue work which aligns with your own values while balancing out your personality's weaknesses. For example, Steve proactively surrounds himself with colleagues and friends whose strengths compensate his weaknesses of egotism and ruthlessness, while aligning on core values to keep to the straight and narrow. He also pursues work where he can solve complex issues with free reign and creativity as a company's "monster man," rather than maintenance issues like ongoing responsibilities and repetitive projects, or even just plain people problems.
• Today, Steve Teare owns or contributes towards several companies and different projects, including a killer website page speed consultancy, which is, oddly enough, how he and I met. He also pursues his own passion projects off the clock-- including an audio murder mystery in 10 parts which I still need to listen to, and I swear I will! You can find out more about his work at PC-Podcast.com/SteveT.

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Chapters

1. How His Mistake Embezzling Computer Parts Made Him Homeless | Steve Teare, PagePipe (00:00:00)

2. "Disaster!" (00:00:52)

3. "The most extreme example of the willingness to do anything?" (00:01:59)

4. "Compromises in the name of success." (00:03:37)

5. "How do you come back? (00:04:27)

6. "There's two things that intelligent people need to work on." (00:06:24)

7. "Your values can change." (00:07:39)

8. "I'm the monster man." (00:09:20)

9. "So, Steve's big mistake..." (00:10:43)