Leadership and Entrepreneurship: Profile of Mark Victor Hansen Part II of a three Part Article

Leadership and Entrepreneurship: Profile of Mark Victor Hansen
”Mega” Best Selling Author, Motivator & Chairman Mark Victor Hansen & Associates
and Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises, Inc.
[Part II of A Three Part Article]

This article offers an insight into groundbreaking proven research into how to overcome adversity and how to become a successful leader which is well researched and fully documented in my new book “Leadership and Adversity: The Shaping of Prominent Leaders.” This new Overcoming Adversity and Leadership book has received extensive endorsements and enthusiastic reviews from well-known prominent business, political, and academic leaders, best-selling authors, and leading scholars who either participated in the study or reviewed the research findings.

You will discover the proven success habits and leadership secrets of people who, in spite of adversity, discrimination, abuse, or difficult or life threatening challenges shaped their own destiny to become successful, effective leaders.
The full results of this research are presented in the just published book, “Leadership and Adversity: The Shaping of Prominent Leaders,” by Howard Edward Haller, Ph.D.

The sixteen prominent successful leaders, who’s stories are told and shared their secrets about how to overcome adversity were: Dr. Tony Bonanzino, Jack Canfield, William Draper III, Mark Victor Hansen, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Monzer Hourani, U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI), J. Terrence Lanni, Dr. John Malone, Angelo Mozilo, Larry Pino, Dr. Nido Qubein, U.S. Army Major General Sid Shachnow (Ret.), Dr. John Sperling, Dr. Blenda Wilson, and Zig Ziglar.

Additionally, five internationally well-known, highly respected Best-Selling authors, and major academic scholars offered their peer debriefing comments, reviews and their agreement with the findings of my research findings including:
Dr. Ken Blanchard, Dr. John Kotter, Professor Jim Kouzes, Dr. Paul Stoltz, and Dr. Meg Wheatley.

This is a Part II of a short biography of one of the prominent leaders and principal participants for my Leadership and Adversity research who generously contributed their time and insights into the phenomenon of how individuals can successfully overcome adversity and obstacles and even go on to become prominent successful leaders.

This is Part II of the three-part mini-biography of one of the principal research participants who generously contributed his time and insight for this important research into the phenomenon of how prominent successful leaders overcome adversity and obstacles.

This Mark Victor Hansen’s “rags to riches” story:
Part II of Three

Mark was able to finance his both undergraduate and graduate education at Southern Illinois University majoring in philosophy and communications from the money he earned playing in his band he started while he was still in high school. He also became a research assistant to Professor Buckminster Fuller. The late Dr. “Bucky” Fuller was the owner of 2,000 major patents and the author of more than 40 national bestsellers, including Utopia and Oblivion. Mark Victor Hansen said, “He was my intellectual mentor. He [Bucky] taught me to think comprehensively and in anticipation of the future. I learned that if you anticipate problems, you could help solve them. That’s what I wanted to do for humanity.”

One of Dr. Buckminster Fuller’s famous inventions, what some called one of his signature inventions, was the geodesic dome. The commercial building of geodesic domes became the focus of Mark Victor Hansen’s first business venture as an adult. Mark shared his vision about helping to house the world, “I thought I would house humanity with those,” Mark continued to demonstrate his selling skills by selling the domes. He was initially successful and in less than three years Mark’s venture had annual sales of $2 million in the early 1970’s.

Mark Victor Hansen, never saw the coming of the OPEC oil embargo of 1974. Mark’s geodesic domes used polyvinyl chloride, more commonly know as “PVC.” PVC is a petrochemical based product which was now suddenly scarce and it was not available to Mark’s new small PVC geodesic dome operation. Hansen’s supplier diverted Mark’s PVC to their larger customers. Mark was literally out of business overnight while only in his middle twenties. What made matters worse was Mark had personally guaranteed his company’s loans. Therefore both the company and Mark Victor Hansen personally fell into bankruptcy. Mark added, “I lost everything. I couldn’t even afford the $300 needed for a bankruptcy attorney, so I had to represent myself.” Mark specifically commented to me that “I literally had to go to the public library and check out a book on ‘How To Go Bankrupt Without An Attorney’”

Part One and Part Three of this Article can be found online

CONCLUSION

Mark Victor Hansen and I discussed my Doctoral research on Leadership and Overcoming Adversity, and specifically the impact of overcoming adversity and obstacles, as well as my research findings. Mark graciously shared his ideas on the importance of overcoming obstacles and specifically about having vision. Mark said, “Solomon said ‘Without vision my people parish’—transliterated that is ‘With vision I flourish.’”

Mark has demonstrated his vision in all he does in his multiple streams of income and what he shares with his audiences. Mark Victor Hansen & Associates web site shares these thoughts, and I wholeheartedly agree: “He [Mark] possesses boundless energy and exuberance travels still further through mediums such as television (Oprah, CNN and The Today Show), print (TIME, US News & World Report, USA Today, The New York Times and Entrepreneur) and countless radio and newspaper interviews as he assures our planet's people that ‘you can easily create the life you deserve.’”

Mark Victor Hansen has been one of my writing and speaking mentors for many years, and I am blessed to have him as my friend, enlightened guru, and mentor. I invite my article readers, looking to be uplifted and touched at a “soulular” level to buy, read, and enjoy a copy of one of over 100 Chicken Soup for the Soul books, or The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, or Dare to Win all by Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield.

For my SelfGrowth.com article readers who are interested in becoming “Enlightened Millionaires” — I suggest that buy, read and then put into action the ideas found in "The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth," "Cracking the Millionaire Code," or their newest best-selling book, "Cash in a Flash" by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen.

Both Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen have been my Mentor for many years. I truly value Mark and Robert’s deep insight, clarity, and focus in their live seminar training and their many great books. I have been blessed to have the opportunity to regularly Speak, Instruct, and Mentor for them since 2005 in both the United States and Canada.

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