As exciting and fascinating as your ideas a...
The World’s Biggest Lie
The biggest, oldest and longest running myth in the world regarding entrepreneurship is probably that those who get into it do so to attain “success”. Years of witnessing how an idea and its realization can turn a mere mortal into a hero has tricked people into a wrongful perception of entrepreneurship.
Let’s first discuss success: what is success to you? Some say it is the attaining of money, lots of it. Others say it is fame and very often fame brought o...
My partner is a god-sent, straight from heaven. He and I complement each other in the simplest, yet genius ways, both personally and professionally. He knows how to speak to me in a way that inspires me to take decisive action. Similarly, I never have to worry about sharing my opinion on his closely guarded talents, intelligence or abilities in fear that I might injure a frail ego. In the same way, he knows I don’t expect him to rescue me from tricky spots and endanger my equally sheltere...
On-going debate challenging the legitimacy of these findings always pitches the “street smarts” vs “book smarts” scenario as an argument. The expects on that side of the debate always claim that the most successful entrepreneurs have also always been hi...
There are many opinions, advices and theories written about dressing for business. Women in particular have to sift through many varied opinions about what constitutes successful professional or business dress. It is encouraging, however, that women in business have come to agree that dressing for success is more about them than the outside world. The “power dress” today means more to women than what it was intended to achieve at first, or rather, it is no longer about impressing others...
I have always wanted to use the phrase : “Act your gender”. It was of course completely made up by me, which may be one of the reasons I want to flaunt it. There is another reason though and it is that this completely made up phrase is actually also great advice.
It’s not new age thinking, this “act your gender” philosophy. Why just the other year we were storming into bookstores to covert our own copies of Steve Harvey’s Act Like a Man, Think like a Lady. Did you see what I d...
There are those who plan the details of a new business idea out till they can almost guarantee zero glitches. Others go over every detail of a well thought out plan for as long as that plan is in motion. Even so, many if not all of these types of entrepreneurs almost always have GREAT expectations for their new venture.
Expectations are the lifeblood of entrepreneurship. Any venture warrior worth his weight in gold would be found outlandish without the usual above-average enthusiasm over a n...
I once met a highly successful and very wealthy young, black entrepreneur. She had been brought up in an entrepreneurial home and was happy to confess that she had never worked a day in her life for other people. Once, she told us, she had tried to work as a teacher. She confessed that this had been the only time she had enjoyed working for other people. At the end of our conversation, she shared how her love for entrepreneurship had led to her marrying a fellow entrepreneur who was also f...
Lead
a : to guide on a way especially by going in advance
b : to direct on a course or in a direction
It’s interesting that in defining the act...
As exciting and fascinating as your ideas a...
The World’s Biggest Lie
The biggest, oldest and longest running myth in the world regarding entrepreneurship is probably that those who get into it do so to attain “success”. Years of witnessing how an idea and its realization can turn a mere mortal into a hero has tricked people into a wrongful perception of entrepreneurship.
Let’s first discuss success: what is success to you? Some say it is the attaining of money, lots of it. Others say it is fame and very often fame brought o...
My partner is a god-sent, straight from heaven. He and I complement each other in the simplest, yet genius ways, both personally and professionally. He knows how to speak to me in a way that inspires me to take decisive action. Similarly, I never have to worry about sharing my opinion on his closely guarded talents, intelligence or abilities in fear that I might injure a frail ego. In the same way, he knows I don’t expect him to rescue me from tricky spots and endanger my equally sheltere...
On-going debate challenging the legitimacy of these findings always pitches the “street smarts” vs “book smarts” scenario as an argument. The expects on that side of the debate always claim that the most successful entrepreneurs have also always been hi...
There are many opinions, advices and theories written about dressing for business. Women in particular have to sift through many varied opinions about what constitutes successful professional or business dress. It is encouraging, however, that women in business have come to agree that dressing for success is more about them than the outside world. The “power dress” today means more to women than what it was intended to achieve at first, or rather, it is no longer about impressing others...
I have always wanted to use the phrase : “Act your gender”. It was of course completely made up by me, which may be one of the reasons I want to flaunt it. There is another reason though and it is that this completely made up phrase is actually also great advice.
It’s not new age thinking, this “act your gender” philosophy. Why just the other year we were storming into bookstores to covert our own copies of Steve Harvey’s Act Like a Man, Think like a Lady. Did you see what I d...
There are those who plan the details of a new business idea out till they can almost guarantee zero glitches. Others go over every detail of a well thought out plan for as long as that plan is in motion. Even so, many if not all of these types of entrepreneurs almost always have GREAT expectations for their new venture.
Expectations are the lifeblood of entrepreneurship. Any venture warrior worth his weight in gold would be found outlandish without the usual above-average enthusiasm over a n...
I once met a highly successful and very wealthy young, black entrepreneur. She had been brought up in an entrepreneurial home and was happy to confess that she had never worked a day in her life for other people. Once, she told us, she had tried to work as a teacher. She confessed that this had been the only time she had enjoyed working for other people. At the end of our conversation, she shared how her love for entrepreneurship had led to her marrying a fellow entrepreneur who was also f...
Lead
a : to guide on a way especially by going in advance
b : to direct on a course or in a direction
It’s interesting that in defining the act...
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