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Over half a million new businesses are started in North America every month, which equates to six million new businesses a year. That’s a lot of businesses! Naturally, they are […]
Grittiness. Angela Duckworth is an expert on the topic of grittiness as it applies to athletics, academics, the arts, and life in general. She even wrote Grit, a best-selling book on the […]
Adaptability. One of the characteristics that stood out for many of the clients in our study was adaptability. They figured out early on that the way they do things in their […]
Disciplined Execution. While business author Jim Collins may be best known for coining the term “Disciplined Execution,” as it applies to big businesses, it’s my colleague Tim Hull who brings […]
Introspective. Admittedly, thoughtful and introspective are not the first words that usually come to mind when describing entrepreneurs. Bull-in-a-China-shop, ready-fire-aim, or my-way-or-the-highway seem much more accurate. Yet it’s an […]
Ego Management. Enough has been written about the impact that an overactive ego can have on a business that it hardly seems necessary to spend time writing about it here. […]
Much of the research and subsequent writing that has been done on effective business leadership has focused on large, multi-national companies and executives—those with billions of dollars in annual revenue […]
Having worked professionally with entrepreneurs for over thirty-five years (and being one myself), I can safely say that they’re an interesting group. Entrepreneurs are frequently smarter than they may come […]