Category archive: Entrepreneurship
If You Don’t Have a Plan B, You Don’t Have a Plan
That’s one of the more memorable expressions I’ve heard over the years, and it’s a great reminder to always have a back-up plan – for strategies you’re pursuing at work, and for your career. The theme was brought to life in vivid terms by two leaders I interviewed this year for Corner Office. The first was…
How To Get Your App Funded Using Crowdfunding
you’ve launched an app before, you probably know how hard it can be to put many hours into development and promotion without necessarily making any money out of it. Or not enough. When comes your next great idea, you might hesitate in putting all the sweat and tears again. If you believe in your app’s…
10 Questions to Ask if You Want to Create a Winning Business Plan
The stodgy business plan—that multipage printed document that entrepreneurs used to hand out at meetings with venture capitalists—has gone the way of the typewriter and Rolodex. These days, entrepreneurs are expected to lay out their strategies in slick Power Point presentations, complete with colorful pictures and informative charts. But while it’s true that the format…
How to Make Your Team Happier And Grow Your Bottom Line
Running a small business is like conducting an orchestra. You have a collection of individuals, each with their own strengths and talents, playing a variety of instruments that have their own distinct sounds. The result could easily be a cacophony akin to nails on a blackboard, but when things go right, the notes flow together,…
How to Turn Your Business Idea into a Business Model
One of the advantages of being a business coach is the opportunity to work with a lot of different businesses and business concepts, seeing what works and what doesn’t. I’ve been involved in a lot of different, unique and unconventional from ladies fashion to premium dog food. Unique ideas can work. But they need to be commercially…
What Is the Office of the Future?
Once upon a time, a person asked to envision the workspace of the future might have detailed the trappings of a space-age utopia: robots, flying pods and out-of-this-world architecture. But ask today’s architects about tomorrow’s office, and the conversation is more likely to include touchpoints such as communication, collaboration and integration. Instead of being out…
What successful people do with the first hour if their work day
Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up home room every day….
12 Affermazioni per l’imprenditore aggressivo
Gli imprenditori sono molto ottimisti. Scettici potrebbero dire “ingenuo”. Ma devono esserlo. Le probabilità sono contro il loro successo, ma quelli che lo fanno, averanno successo per le loro famiglie, risolveranno i problemi dei clienti, e possibilmente cambiaranno il mondo in un modo grande. Il miglior imprenditore, quindi, ha un sana fiducia che “sarò l’unica…
Come puoi fare o disfare la tua carriera
La preparazione è sempre stata una parte molto importante del mio modo di lavorare e di come posso fare per eseguire i miei diversi interessi commerciali. Fin dall’inizio ho sempre fatto del mio meglio per essere il più organizzato e preparato come possibile quando si è trattato di incontri, pitching per le nuove imprese e…
Perchè dovremmo tutti abbracciare la lettera F (fallimento)
Troppo spesso, la parola “fallimento” porta con sé la minaccia di una catastrofe carriera di finale, tanto che eufemismi edificanti come “opportunità” sono gettati su al suo posto. Ma “niente ha successo come il fallimento”, secondo l’ultimo libro di Lewis Schiff, “Affari Brillante: lezioni di sorpresa dal più grande Business Icons fatto da sé.” Come…