The traditional approach of implementing stable and repeatable processes, so that your business can run itself, no longer works.
Business Lessons Often Ignored In The Heat Of Passion
I’m convinced that you can learn more from failure than success, so it pays to take these as lessons to improve your success odds before you start.
10 Questions To Test Your Aptitude As An Entrepreneur
The requirements for success for entrepreneurs may indeed be not so much academic, but more a mindset of confidence, commitment, perseverance, and constant learning.
Fear Of Failure Makes It A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Starting and running a business is unpredictable, and has a high risk of failure. For people with a victim mentality, this fear of failure alone will almost certainly make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
How To Stay Cool, Despite Team Members Who Annoy You
In my career in business, I’ve found that the people you work with make all the difference. If everyone works well together, you all feel a sense of job satisfaction. If some people on the team are irritating to you and others, the whole environment becomes toxic, killing your motivation and the productivity of the […]
5 Strategies To Overcome The Fears Of A New Venture
One of the biggest impediments to starting a new venture is the “terror barrier”. This is the imaginary barrier that always seems to appear at the critical point where we would step out ahead of peers or competitors, but fear causes us to stop short.
Don’t Despair While Building A Sustainable Business
Entrepreneurs seem more quickly frustrated these days when their “million-dollar idea” doesn’t turn into a sustainable business overnight. They don’t realize that it takes many skills to build a business under the best of circumstances, and today’s world of instant gratification doesn’t leave room for the patience and practice to develop these skills.
Reasons Not To Make Decisions Today On Gut Instincts
I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.
7 Practices Reduce Risk In Even The Smallest Business
In the last few years, I’ve heard more and more about a new type of small business, called a “micro-business” (or micro-enterprise). These are usually characterized as owner-operated, with five employees or less, and less than $250,000 in sales. With the low cost of e-commerce entry and powerful Internet technologies, they require minimal capital to […]
8 Ways To Prepare Yourself For Business Crises Ahead
I have found some key things that you can do to prepare yourself, how a proper mindset can mitigate the pain, and put you back in control when problems arise.