Business Management and Entrepreneurship

If you’ve just left or are considering exiting that corporate job to start your own business, here are few fundamentals it helps to recognize as soon as you can.

My thoughts on a note I received from an independent consultant on starting her business and realizing that she’d traded jobs.

There is no “new normal.” There’s not a “forward normal,” nor a “next normal.” There never was a normal to begin with. “Normal” is a mirage. To be effective in our business, we must embrace this fact.

A recent interview with business infrastructure expert Alicia Butler Pierre sparked these thoughts on why the term “solopreneur” is a myth.

Maybe you’ve been laid off. Maybe you’re one of the seeming few able to retire from the corporate world gracefully, but you don’t want to completely hang it up. Whatever the reason, if you’re considering buying a franchise, do NOT buy one in which the franchisor can control the pricing of your product or service. I explain in this post.

So what do you do when you don’t know what to do? That’s what a lot of business owners face as they navigate the current economic environment. (The answer, by the way, is what you should be doing anyway, even if you are convinced you’re on the right track.)

Thoughts on what it means to be an essential business.

Wherever you find yourself right now, whether your business has just fallen off a little, a lot, or maybe even collapsed, there’s one consistent principle in recoveries: they come from small and steady steps. A story of loss, grief, despair, hope, and recovery.

Assumptions are lethal for your business, and particularly right now.

Business Management and Entrepreneurship

Trading Jobs

There is No “New Normal”

The Myth of the Solopreneur

Before You Buy a Franchise, Please Read This

When You Don’t Know What to Do

Essential Business?

Small and Steady

Assumptions