Dr. Sean Wise, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Seed Stage VC You may be wondering what an author of a book subtitled “Know When to Quit Your Day Job” would have to tell CEOs. But in truth, it is the book’s main title that you need to focus on, Startup Opportunities. My co-author, Brad Feld, the investor […]
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As my clients began to emerge from the global economic turmoil that began in 2008, they indicated they had learned numerous lessons—the most important one: When leaders make good decisions, little else matters. When they refuse to make decisions, or show a pattern of making bad ones, nothing else matters. As I helped these leaders position themselves
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Robin Speculand, Founder & CEO, Bridges Business Consultancy Int The pressure to transform your business to integrate digital or to keep up with the competition or to sustain market share is placing the spotlight on organizations execution capabilities. An organization needs both the ability to craft the strategy and the skill to execute it but most
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Suhas Apte & Jagdish N. Sheth, Authors, THE SUSTAINABILITY EDGE: How To Drive Top-Line Growth With Triple-Bottom-Line Thinking Ensuring long-term sustainability, whether it’s a start-up or an ongoing business, should be a top priority for every entrepreneur and CEO. With the growth stagnation seen in mature markets, resource availability in decline, the pace of innovation accelerating
Each year I aspire to teach my clients lessons that will help them improve their personal and professional lives and their businesses. But what many of them probably don’t realize is that I simultaneously learn as I teach. And even though I’ve been consulting for more than thirty-five years, each year and each client has
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Leonard Sherman, Author, If You’re In A Dogfight, Become a Cat! – Strategies for Long-Term Growth The time to rethink three widely believed, but outdated management ideas is long overdue. 1. There are “good” and “bad” industries In the late 1970s, Michael Porter’s seminal article on business strategy — How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy — established
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1. Get in front of buyers every week. Buyers are the people who can tell you “yes,” the people who can sign the check without getting anyone else’s approval. Identify these people through Linkedin, referrals, vendors, subcontractors, and anyone else who can help you figure out where the next job lies. Each year, make a
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Justin E. Crawford, Founder, Agents of Efficiency There are good reasons people take pride in DIY, but it can be a trap for small-business owners. It sucks precious time away from focusing on the core of the business — and there’s nothing more valuable than your time. What makes things worse for small-business owners stuck in the
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Christopher James Conner, President, Franchise Marketing Systems Scale is the true definition of leverage for a business leader, it is the culmination of solid business systems, the right people, a good business strategy and the technology to support growth. Most of us in businesses that do not traditionally scale well – Retail, Service or in my case consulting –
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Kari Warberg Block, Founder and CEO of earthkind® I started my company, earthkind®, makers of natural preventive repellants, because I was on a mission. As the wife of a farmer and daughter of an entomologist, I couldn’t understand why, at the time, 98% of pest control solutions sold were kill methods and poisons. I started
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