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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Three Arts to Master as a Business Leader
As an artist who has worked with top entrepreneurs and executives to enhance their leadership skills, author Erik Wahl has come to view leadership as an art form. He believes leaders, just like artists, need to tap into something deeply creative within themselves to stay ahead of the crowd, avoid mediocrity, and inspire those around them. Below are three arts the best leaders cultivate, according to the author:
Categories: Best Practices Entrepreneurial Journey FINANCES Goal Setting Inspirational Lessons Learned Make a Mark
Are You Ready for What’s Next?
Each Thursday in September, we’ll be featuring an EO member who’s shared their experiences establishing innovative products or mindsets. This week, we tip our hat to Chad Hughes, EO Calgary member and President and CEO of LandSolutions LP. His article, “The Readiness Factor,” will be featured in the upcoming September 2015 issue of Octane. Chad asks readers if they’re truly ready for growth and the next stages in their business venture.
Categories: Best Practices Entrepreneurial Journey general Goal Setting Inspirational Lessons Learned Productivity
Entrypreneurship: An Easier Route to BYOB (Becoming Your Own Boss)
By Brian Scudamore, an EO Vancouver member and Founder of 1-800-Got-Junk?
I often get asked advice from young people who are interested in starting their own businesses, and what I tell them is, “Don’t do what I did!”
Categories: Best Practices Coaching Entrepreneurial Journey Inspirational international members
Tags: 1-800-got-junk? brian scudamore entrepreneurs' organization entrypreneurship eo vancouver
This Ingenious Business Isn’t “For the Birds”
Each Wednesday in September, we’ll be spotlighting innovation within GSEA, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. This week, we’re giving a huge shout-out to Steiner Henkses, the 2015 GSEA winner and CEO of Bird Control Group. His business helps protect nature from commercial activities – specifically, Bird Control Group uses benign lasers to keep birds at a safe distance from man-made machinery and equipment.
Categories: EO News general Goal Setting Make a Mark
#TipTuesday
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Categories: Goal Setting Inspirational Productivity
Tags: entrepreneurs' organization mark zuckerberg quotes risk Tip Tuesday
Are You Prepared to Make These Difficult Decisions?
Financial jargon can be complex, to the extreme that we often avoid the topic in daily life. But the time will come when we’ll need to make some smart money choices for ourselves and our families.
At some point, we’ll need to…
– Discuss personal finances and donations to charity with our family
– Decide how and/or whether to hire a financial planner
– Determine our legacy through living wills, planning an estate and choosing our beneficiaries
Categories: Best Practices FINANCES general Goal Setting Legacy Lessons Learned
Tags: financial education financial planner financial planning Saul Simon Simon Says: Love Your Legacy
#MotivationMonday
“If you’re prepared and you know what it takes, it’s not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.”– Mark Cuban
Categories: Best Practices FINANCES Inspirational
Tags: entrepreneurs' organization mark cuban motivation monday
What It Takes to Hit the Million-Dollar Mark: An Interview with Lauren King
What does it take to surpass the US$1 million threshold in business? Is it luck, hard work, networking or something less obvious? Lauren King, EO Accelerator Program Director, spoke with us and shared how the program is fueling entrepreneurial innovation and growth globally:
Categories: Best Practices Coaching Entrepreneurial Journey general Goal Setting Inspirational Interview Lessons Learned members Productivity Sales
Tags: Brandon Dempsey business growth entrepreneurs eo EO Accelerator goals innovation Lauren King
Protect Your Business from Zombies
Jamie Gerdsen, an EO Cincinnati member, isn’t preparing his readers for a zombie apocalypse; rather, in his upcoming book, Zombies Ate My Business: How to Keep Your Traditional Business from Becoming One of the Undead, Gerdsen identifies unproductive employees (zombies) and their effect on company growth and the bottom line. Traditional businesses are especially at risk of plateauing or declining after a time of sustained success.
Categories: Best Practices FINANCES general Lessons Learned members
Tags: employees entrepreneurs' organization Jamie Gerdsen office productivity zombies Zombies Ate My Business