As a business owner, you are most likely going to have to handle different tasks simultaneously. You may need to take care of things at the management’s end because your staff is simply not equipped to handle them. You may also be challenged to find ways to stay within budget and fill roles that meet… Read More »
This entrepreneurial journey is tough and rocky, and often longer than anticipated. The key to mastering this journey is adopting the right mindset, where we can discover vast untapped reserves of persistence, grit, and intelligence. This is especially true for serial entrepreneurship, where your routines, methods, and ideas must work in perfect unison to cater… Read More »
There is a common emphasis on finding ways for businesses to give back to the community. The need to support the community—commonly referred to as corporate social responsibility or “CSR”—isn’t just ethical. It can feed the very fabric of an enterprise itself. Good CSR initiatives encourage employee loyalty and retention. They foster goodwill with customers,… Read More »
“Discover what you love and become really good at it” are the words of Steve Jobs in his Stanford commencement speech back in 2005.[1] Cliche perhaps, but taking the bus at 6 am on a Monday will make one realize that many don’t love the work they do. Do you wake up every morning excited… Read More »
As a multi-passionate entrepreneur, I’ve learned an immense amount over the years about the importance of building an entrepreneurial mindset. Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. You’ve got to be dedicated, determined, and whole-heartedly invested in your journey. According to Small Business Trends, “one in four entrepreneurs fail at least once before succeeding.… Read More »
For many small business owners, profit margins are not what they used to be. At least one outworking of these ever-thinning margins is a growing reluctance to hire additional staff, even when the need has become evident.[1] Balancing your bottom line against increasing worker fatigue is always tricky. Knowing exactly when to hire in your small… Read More »
Today, more than two years after the global onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, it seems many businesses are finally starting to see the light (or at least more light) at the end of the tunnel. Many of them have faced a business crisis and somehow managed to survive. At the same time, health officials are… Read More »
Your thoughts, experience, and career trajectory seem to be moving you toward various types of entrepreneurship, yet you wonder if you’re cut out for it. True, the potential rewards are great, personally and financially, but the pitfalls give you pause. You may already know that more than nine of every ten new businesses fail, and… Read More »
Have you had enough of someone telling you what to do? Do you have great ideas that your boss won’t pay attention to? Are you fed up with working long hours but not earning more no matter how hard you work? There are many reasons why you want to quit your job to start a… Read More »
It wasn’t until much farther down my career path that I figured out how to turn my life experience into life coaching… Many years ago, I remember walking into my second-grade classroom after lunch to see the words “What do you want to be when you grow up?” written on the chalkboard. It was a… Read More »
Famed American writer, William S. Burroughs, once observed that, “When you stop growing, you start dying.” And for businesses, it’s hard to think of a more apt description of their lifecycle. After all, in industries that have any competition whatsoever, businesses must be constantly growing to avoid being overtaken by others. But achieving a state… Read More »