Business Management and Entrepreneurship
Six Truths to Understand as You Leave Corporate to Start Your Business
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.
Read MoreTrading Jobs
My thoughts on a note I received from an independent consultant on starting her business and realizing that she’d traded jobs.
Read MoreThere is No “New Normal”
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.
Read MoreThe Myth of the Solopreneur
A recent interview with business infrastructure expert Alicia Butler Pierre sparked these thoughts on why the term “solopreneur” is a myth.
Read MoreBefore You Buy a Franchise, Please Read This
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.
Read MoreWhen You Don’t Know What to Do
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.)
Read MoreEssential Business?
Thoughts on what it means to be an essential business.
Read MoreSmall and Steady
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.
Read MoreAssumptions
Assumptions are lethal for your business, and particularly right now.
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