grajgushost2019-09-24T16:52:45+00:00August 20th, 2009|
Entrepreneurs are a bit like atom smashers. They provoke and harness collisions, what I term attractive accidents. ▪ They know how to bring together and constructively confront people in different disciplines and often with opposing [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:44:22+00:00August 13th, 2009|
Successful entrepreneurs are very much like archeologists, as well as detectives. Better said, their style resembles that of accomplished archeological guides. After you discover an exciting strategic truth about your business, communicating it is your [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:41:24+00:00August 6th, 2009|
Great entrepreneurs are inveterate detectives. I visited the Brainy Quote website for some chestnuts about detection from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of that master sleuth Sherlock Holmes: ▪ "It has long been an [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:44:59+00:00July 29th, 2009|
Agile entrepreneurs know how to tinker under pressure . . . without feeling that pressure as an inhibiting force. There is something rather bold and defiant about someone facing a deadline or a seemingly insoluble [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:45:15+00:00July 22nd, 2009|
The leader's inspiration is often the high-octane fuel that drives an entrepreneurial organization. Any organization today wants to confirm its instincts with validating quantitative and qualitative information. While understandable, that reassurance can prove costly. Information [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:35:23+00:00July 15th, 2009|
Nearly all budding entrepreneurs believe they are well suited to entrepreneurship because they are self-reliant and are accomplished chiefly because they get things done themselves. Almost all seasoned entrepreneurs have learned just the opposite is [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:34:26+00:00July 8th, 2009|
The world of McKinsey, Boston Consulting, and Bain dominate traditional consulting. Their strengths, in my view, are most deeply developed in cost-cutting and in trimming out the wasted white spaces of organization. Smaller, less process-driven [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:32:53+00:00July 1st, 2009|
Entrepreneurs are imaginative, expansive, and inspiring dynamos. But, in a drastically down economy, when payrolls must be met, credit has dried up, and suppliers retreat to tight-fisted terms, entrepreneurs are also something else . . [...]
