Has the Age of Mediocrity arrived?
One of my information sources (recommended by reader Lauren) is Harvard Business Publishing’s Management Tip of the Day. (Go here, then look for the Management Tip of the Day in the right “Subscribe Options” area.) A couple days ago the title of the article was Do Something Remarkable for Customers. It’s actually a cool little [...]
What motivates you?
I had an early morning meeting with an entrepreneur last week. He’s located in an area that historically has a lot of traffic congestion to begin with, not to mention the large construction project that began on the interchange there about six months ago. I hate to be late to meetings, so I left with [...]
5 steps to sustained personal change
I’ve been using this concept of a “crucible” or intense life event as a backdrop lately for some of my posts. Today, I’d like to talk a little about something that has been an element of my current crucible, and what I have learned from it. The topic is change, specifically personal change. Even more [...]
Lessons to be learned
It’s rather ironic that I recently recommended a book called Crucibles of Leadership. The book sounded interesting as it is centered around creating a Personal Learning Strategy to take advantage of particularly stressful life experiences. The author calls these experiences crucibles, and his premise is we all have enough crucibles to provide the basis for a [...]
Stories from the field: Passion and Commitment
While being exposed to creative business ideas day in and day out is a fun part of my job, probably the best part is getting to meet the entrepreneurs behind those ideas. In talking to one recently, it really reminded me of a couple of the core entrepreneurial qualities: Passion and Commitment. The Story This [...]
More entrepreneurial qualities
I was skimming the bookshelf looking for some different methods to value early-stage companies (if anyone knows of some good online resources, please comment with them), and I came across another list of entrepeneurial qualities. This list is out of The New Venture Handbook. Published in 1993 it is a little dated, but it’s not [...]
Essential qualities of entrepreneurship – ver. 1
Okay, time for you all to speak up and tell me what you think. After taking my own notes as to the qualities I think are essential for entrepreneurship, I posted a question on the topic over at LinkedIn’s Q&A section and got some great additional feedback. So in this post, I will quickly outline [...]
LinkedIn question on entrepreneurship core qualities
I’ve had good success, and some fun, over the last couple of months asking and responding to questions on the LinkedIn Q&A section. If you are a LinkedIn user and haven’t checked it out, I highly recommend giving it a test drive. It may not be a fit for you, but you should definitely know [...]
