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May 8, 2009

Entrepreneur 101

There are a few things that you can be sure of as an entrepreneur:

•   If you don’t believe in yourself and your ideas then
    you can be sure that nobody else will
•   If you don’t have passion for your business it won’t
    come from anyone else
•   If it was supposed to be easy, everybody would be
    doing it
•   The problems are there not to stop you from
    succeeding but to stop the others from going
    where you go
•   If there are but a few words to live by, let them be
    audacity, vision, belief and persistence
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Apr 7, 2009

If I had a Trillion…

Is it just me wondering or do others worry that last week’s G-20 Summit big photo opportunity featured some pretty nervous smiles? Politicians at the G-20 Summit were smiling for the camera while continuing to suggest that we spend our way out of debt. Have they got it all figured out? Interest rates will certainly spike above 1% some time in the (near) future. So, how long can you continue to spend and spend again? While I appreciate their efforts, I find it worrisome that the trillions are adding up so quickly.
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Mar 27, 2009

To Listen and Share or Not?

I had an interesting experience at a recent marketing roundtable that I was running for a fast-growing manufacturer of branded and private label products.

The founder and CEO was in the room along with a number of the members of the management and sales teams. One of the points that came up from the management team was that the entrepreneur did not share enough of his ideas and vision in advance. In essence, he continuously held his cards too close to his chest making it difficult for them to make day-to-day, tactical decisions that contributed to the long-term strategic direction of the firm.

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