Tagged: motivational

4 Tips for Moving Past Imposter Syndrome

22 February, 2017

By Ashton Bishop, CEO at Step Change

What is the number one fear leaders have? It’s being found out—having a perceived incompetency uncovered. This fear is called impostor syndrome.

If you have these concerns, you are not alone.

I had mild dyslexia as a child, and it made me feel stupid. School was punishing. Even through my 20s and 30s, no matter what I did, I often felt the fear of being found out. I felt like an impostor. I was never enough.

To counter these feelings, I focused on achieving things. I signed up for taekwondo and was awarded a black belt. I joined athletics clubs and won a state title. I earned a law degree. When I started working, I rose up the ranks in the corporate world—from office junior to account executive, to account manager, to account director, to group account director and, ultimately, to CEO.

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I’ve Survived Worse

25 March, 2015

By Hao Lam, EO Seattle member and CEO of Best in Class Education

Persistence—it’s one of the most important skills an entrepreneur can have, and one I learned to adopt long before I started my first business. I was born in South Vietnam during the height of the civil war with North Vietnam. It was a terrifically tough time, and one that greatly impacted my family. My father had worked for, and fought alongside, the United States army. When Saigon fell, we were closely monitored and ostracized, resulting in my father being jailed as a political prisoner. I had to flee.

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Igniting the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Israel

24 March, 2015

By Eran Lobel, EO Boston member and CEO of ELEMENT Productions

EO is an amazing organization—the mark you can make with the support of your peers! When I attended the EO Istanbul University in 2012, my primary focus was on exploring how to raise my company’s profile on the global stage. While in Turkey, my new EO friends saw my enthusiasm for expanding my business and approached me with an exciting proposition: To harness some of my entrepreneurial zeal and help start an EO chapter in Israel. Upon learning that several Israeli entrepreneurs had unsuccessfully attempted to establish an EO chapter, I decided to join a small task force of EO members to plan an Israel chapter launch.

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Back to School!

28 January, 2015

By Glenn Karr, an EO Winnipeg member and the President of Superblinds & Draperies

When people tell me they’re shocked that I returned to university at 50, I laugh because I can’t believe it either. Over the past seven years, I finished my Bachelor of Commerce, CMA, MBA and law degree in addition to articling at a Winnipeg law firm—all while running a successful business.

Categories: Inspirational Lessons Learned

Tags: advice entrepreneurial journey inspirational motivational tips

The Role of Risk

2 December, 2014

By Angel Jones, CEO of Homecoming Revolution and a member of EO Johannesburg

In the late 1990s, with a post-graduate degree and a year of backpacking under my belt, I landed in London. Miraculously, I found a job with the Saatchi brothers. They’d just left Saatchi & Saatchi and started a rival agency, M&C Saatchi. I got in as a runner. Running to get Charles’s dry-cleaning, running to fetch Maurice’s cappuccino, running to welcome our clients.

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5 Health Reasons to Consider Standing While you Work

14 November, 2013

By Rene Seifert, an EO Bangalore member and Managing Director of Level 360 Service

If you’re reading this blog post, you’re probably sitting at your desk and have been sitting at your desks for several hours. More and more people are starting to spend more time in sedentary positions and EO Bangalor member Rene Seifer gives his audience five reasons to get up, circulate blood flow and enjoy a more active lifestyle even during one’s workday. So sit back or, better yet, stand up to enjoy today’s blog post.

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How to Win at Business Negotiations

12 March, 2013

By: Entrepreneur.com Staff, a Special to Overdrive

If you’re in business, you’re a negotiator. You have no choice. Business doesn’t happen unless two or more people enter into a transaction. This can be as simple as buying inventory or as complicated as a merger of two public companies. Without transactions, business doesn’t happen, and every transaction involves a certain amount of negotiation. When you’re in business, negotiating the best possible deals is a high, if not the highest, priority. As a business owner, you can’t know enough about negotiating.

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Tags: best practices business entrepreneur entrepreneurship lessons learned motivational online small business tips

Billionaires and How They Made It

7 March, 2013

By: Erin Carlyle, a Special to Overdrive

Want to be a billionaire? You may want to consider which of the many paths to wealth–ballet flats? real estate in China? the next Facebook?–could be most likely to land you a spot on the Forbes Billionaires List. To give you some ideas, we poured through the wealth database to come up with the industries that give you the best chances. The No. 1 wealth-producing industry: Investments, which made 148 billionaires including George Soros, Carl Icahn and newcomers Seth Klarman and Isabel dos Santos. Investments is a catch-all category we use here at Forbes to categorize the wealth created by hedge fund managers, people who play stockbroker with the family money, and the titans of investing who make moves like snapping up steel assets out of bankruptcy court.

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Lift Where You Stand: EO-DC Launches CARES Community Outreach Initiative

6 March, 2013

By: Marissa Levin, an EO DC member

Last summer, I approached our chapter Board with an idea to jump-start a community service initiative that would enable members to come together to serve our region’s neediest. What started as a single event has now evolved into a “community within a community” that I branded as EO-DC CARES (Community Allstars Responding, Engaging and Serving).

Categories: Inspirational

Tags: best practices business entrepreneur entrepreneurs' organization leadership lessons learned motivational small business

Don’t Let Poor Partnerships Drag You Down

22 February, 2013

By: Kurt Olender, an EO New Jersey member, and is the founding partner of Olender-Feldman LLP

So, you and your partners just started a business. The future looks bright, everyone expects the company to grow quickly and you’re even fantasizing about your successful exit strategy … sound familiar? While some business partnerships end on a positive note, others often don’t. I know from experience. For 20 years, I have been representing owners of closely held businesses, and I also own several businesses with partners. In my time, I have seen some poor partnerships and watched as they negatively impacted healthy businesses. Here are a few examples of partnerships gone bad, as well as some tips that could help you avoid a similar fate: