Can't Get a Loan or Investor? No Problem. Crowdfunding To The Rescue!
Today's entrepreneurs view the world and the future through a different lens than that of current or past generations. If the conventional system won't accommodate them, then they will build an unconventional system. That is exactly what they have done with crowdfunding.
Building Past The Million Dollar Mark: Will It Work for Your Life?
Building a multi-million dollar company can take over your life.Expanding a business requires careful thought about the lifestyle implications, access to money, and a thorough business plan that maps out the path to go from your current state of business to your desired state of business.
The Dangerous Myth of the Magical Million Dollar Mark
"Million, million, million." It feels good when we say it, doesn't it? Especially when we talk about growing our businesses. "I'm going to hit a million dollars." "I'm going to be a millionaire." "I'm working on my goal of $1 million in sales."
Pushing Through Obstacles: Six Strategies to Tap Into Your Powers of Possibility
So how does a leader keep going - with a smile on her face? I've developed several strategies to continue moving towards my goals, and I'm happy to share 6 of them with you. Reach back to these as you move through your challenges.
Three Things Business Leaders Must Constantly Do To Remain Extraordinary
Leadership is hard. Vision, strategy, financing, legal, IT, HR, operations, management, sales, marketing... and staying strong through it all. Tough.If you don't absolutely love what you do, if you don't believe in the positive difference you are making in the world around you, you can fatigue very quickly.
"It's Not You, It's Me:" Evaluating Prospective and Current Customers for an Organizational Fit
We’ve all been there… we’ve all met people at times in our life and thought that a relationship was going to work out, only to discover after you’ve peeled back the layers that perhaps it just wasn’t meant to be.
A Day In The Life of the CCO: A Chief Culture Officer To-Do List
We can't assume the culture is on auto-pilot. We need to do regular pulse-checks with our people. In an era of technology, processes, and systems... in a lifetime that has become app-driven, we have to protect the humanity of our companies. Our employees need to know we are checking the heartbeat of the organization on a regular basis, and that means gauging the happiness, engagement, and emotional health of those that support us.
Thank you Successful Culture Supporters! Leaders don't start Movements....Courageous Followers start Movements!
Leaders are known to start movements. However, it isn't really the leader that starts the movement of a new way of thinking, being, or doing. Rather, it is the follower.The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
Culture Spotlight: Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (Join Us October 11th for Back-to-School Back-to-Business!)
Founded in New York City in 1987 by Steve Mariotti, a former entrepreneur turned high school math teacher in the South Bronx, NFTE began as a program to prevent dropouts and improve academic performance among students who were at risk of failing or quitting school.Combining his business background with his desire to teach at-risk students, Steve discovered that when young people from low-income communities are given the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship, their innate "street smarts" can easily develop into "academic smarts" and "business smarts." Through entrepreneurship, young people discover that what they are learning in the classroom is relevant to the real world.
Do Employees Make Your System Smarter? Or Is It The Other Way Around?
What's the smartest and strongest aspect of your organization? Is it your employees, or is it your organization?If you follow the thinking of the spectacularly failed Enron Corporation, who religiously subscribed to the belief that having better talent at all levels is how you outperform, then you put most of your stock in the strength of your people. At the height of its hiring frenzy, Enron was bringing on 250 newly minted Ivy League MBA's a year, grossly overpaying them, giving them Carte Blanche to pursue strategic ideas, and catering to their every professional demand.