May 202013
 
Understanding Strategic Innovation

So what is strategic innovation? For your company to succeed you need to stay competitive and ahead of all the other companies that are working to gain the same market share that you are. You need strategic innovation to understand the marketplace and produce new products and services to meet the needs of your consumers. Without a template for strategic innovation you can’t stay competitive Read More »

May 172013
 
We Desperately Need Non-Conformists! 5 Reasons You Should Be an Entrepreneur

National wealth is based on private enterprise. It is an incontrovertible fact. The basic building blocks of wealth and prosperity for all nations has been private enterprise. Without private enterprise there would be no money for governments to fund infrastructure, health or education, and without private enterprise unemployment throughout the world would be at sky high levels. Business is also vital for our standard of Read More »

May 152013
 
Who Can Motivate Your Employees for Innovation?

We very often require some new ideas or innovative approaches from our employees. We try to create a corporate culture targeted on the search and implementation of innovations or on improvements of something. The question of motivation comes again and again. Let’s try to look at how much this question is important during the search and implementation of innovations. From one point of view, it Read More »

May 132013
 
Reconnecting With Your Starting Point

To effectively plan for the growth of a business an entrepreneur has to zero in on the origination of the business. This is important is because you need to orient yourself to the preliminary stages of your business prior to putting yourself on a continued path of success. Think of it a retrospective look with an inclination towards the future. Some say: “the best way Read More »

May 082013
 
Startup Storytelling - Create a Business Worth Talking About, and Tell Stories About Your Startup

This is one way to approach the whole of business startup, I think. In fact, it is one way of considering your value proposition. If your business is not worth talking about, then you should probably not start at all. But your business is worth talking about. Avoid second-hand stories, because yours must differentiate you. They have to be good stories and have a purposeful Read More »

May 062013
 
What Are 4 Differences Between Being Unemployed and Being an Entrepreneur?

Are you thinking about quitting your job? Want to start a new venture? Don’t know where to start? Many people think that quitting your job means that you become unemployed. This could not be further from the truth. The mindset involved in being an entrepreneur and being unemployed are substantially different. For starters, the entrepreneur has a growth mindset. She wants to succeed, sees the Read More »