Entrepreneurship – Page 8 – The CEO Magazine

Keep Your Eye on the Horizon: Four Considerations for Healthcare Startups

Hubert Zajicek, CEO, Health Wildcatters According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), there are approximately 27 million working-age Americans currently starting or running new businesses. That means 14 percent of the population consider themselves entrepreneurs! Many startups in the U.S. have become highly successful in their respective marketplaces over the past few years. Just think – we […]

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Is It Legal, Ethical, or Right?

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management

Did you ever play a game as a child when you made up the rules as you went along? I’m guessing that those evolving rules often proved to be a source of contention! Leaders at work find the same to be true. When managers decide to disregard their moral compass as the official business handbook,

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Why Closing Your Eyes is a Powerful Leadership Tool

Entrepreneurship, Finance, Leadership, Management, Small Business, Strategy

Why Closing Your Eyes is a Powerful Leadership Tool. Look around. Take in everything that you see. There’s the stack of sticky notes with calls to be returned; a report that needs to be reviewed; the partially finished cost proposal for your big client; and a half-eaten sandwich sitting next to the book club book

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Shifting My Mind-Set to Go from Struggling Start-up to Billion Dollar Enterprise: Confessions of a Formerly Conservative CEO

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Self Governance, Small Business

Pamela Evette, President & CEO, Quality Business Solutions I founded my business as a sole proprietorship in 2000 and struggled for many years through the normal growing pains associated with a start-up – deciding when and where to invest, identifying new target markets and prospects, and determining when the time was right to add new

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What Do the Kool-Aid Man, the Avon Lady and Richard Branson Have in Common? Hint: They Are All Masters of Branding

Entrepreneurship, Management, Small Business, Strategy

Julie Cottineau, Founder & CEO, BrandTwist Whether you are a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or the founder of a start up with big plans, looking at branding best practices from successful brands such as Kool-Aid, Avon, Apple, and Virgin can yield some valuable lessons that can then be applied to your brand for big impact.

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Is a Remote Workforce Good for Your Business?

Business Ops., Entrepreneurship, Management, Small Business, Strategy

Simon Slade, CEO & Co-founder, SaleHoo Hiring staff can be one of the greatest challenges for a business owner because expanding your team with great talent is a constant necessity. The trend of remote work is a response to that challenge. GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com suggests that 50% of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with partially

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ONE Question Managers Must ALWAYS Answer Correctly

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management

Managers hear questions every day. Some serious; some trivial. “Are the merger rumors true?” “How much is our budget being cut?” “Can we extend our deadline a couple of days?” “Is our team going to have to work over the weekend?” But the ONE question that you have to answer correctly every single time is

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Three Tips to See Beyond Your Filters for Good Decisions

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management

You’re wired to see what you already believe. It’s a simple statement but the implications for decision-making are complex. What you already believe is built layer upon layer from your experiences which create a filter through which you see the world. Good decision-making relies on understanding how your brain’s filter colors perception and influences interpretation.

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From A Crazy Idea To A Million Dollar Business In 60 Countries

Entrepreneurship, Small Business

Michael Stausholm, Founder & CEO, Sprout It all started with an idea from a group of students at MIT in Boston back in 2012. When they got the challenge of developing ”the sustainable office article of the future”, they came up with the idea of a plantable pencil with a capsule of seeds in the

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How a Marine Mentality Can Help Build a Successful Business in Any Industry

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Small Business

Will Post, Founder & CEO, Hound & Gatos Pet Foods According to the Small Business Administration, over 90 percent of all businesses are considered small, which is having less than 500 employees. While there is a lot of information readily available to explain to would-be entrepreneurs about how to go through the steps to open one of these

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