An Entrepreneurs’ Gift
An Entrepreneurs’ Gift Lights, presents, family, food and more food. Everybody loves the holidays. A time when people seem to be a little nicer and just a little more giving. In light of the holiday season, David Hagenbuch, Associate Professor of Marketing at Messiah College and founder of MindfulMarketing.org gives a shout out to entrepreneurs and their gifts to the world. The 3 Gifts Entrepreneurs Give to the World: 1. Ideas “We live in a society where it’s so easy to be a critic and point out what’s wrong in what others have done. Meanwhile, it’s much more...
Read MoreTop CEO’s on How to Conduct Meetings
Top CEO’s on How to Conduct Meetings Drake Baer, Business Insider writer and entrepreneurship expert, shares some fantastic principles from a few of today’s top execs on how to conduct meetings. Here are a few excerpts from his article (full version here): Opsware CEO and Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz likes to have one-to-one meetings. Horowitz, who spends much of his time mentoring young leaders, says that most important job for a CEO is to architect the way people communicate in a company. The one-to-one meeting is essential to that process, he says, as...
Read MoreSWOT Analysis
When your car starts to make funny noises and quits running well, what do you do? You either stop to do a check-up or you take it to a mechanic. But what about when your business is struggling and you’re not meeting your goals? That’s where SWOT analysis comes in. SWOT analysis is a method used to understand the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats of a company and provides both a high level and in depth look at internal and external factors; a sort of business “check-up.” Investopedia says: “The method of SWOT analysis is to take the information from an environmental...
Read MoreThe Measuring Stick: Determining the Strength of Your Workplace
Image source: tothministries.org via Google search Revenue, profit, sales volume – that’s easy enough for us to measure. But what about employee morale? Company culture? A manager’s effectiveness? Overall strength of a workplace? Now that’s tough. But, the Gallup Organization believes it’s possible, and so do I. Over the course of 25 years Gallup studied these and other questions by interviewing over a million employees and gathering their answers to hundreds of similar questions. In the end, Gallup ran an in depth and extremely complex statistical analysis that...
Read More5 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know
5 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know Paul B. Brown, Forbes entrepreneurship columnist, gives 23 wonderful insights from 30+ years of experience. I’ll give you my 5 favorites. See the full article here. 1. The best way to predict the future is to create it. If you’re wondering if today, this month, this year, is going to be successful, you’re the one that makes it happen! 2. The most important decision you can make is where to spend your time. A common question asked of successful people is, “How do you balance your time?” A common answer is, “You...
Read MoreWorking with Gen Y, the Millennials
Tips for Working with Gen Y, the Millennials With each new graduating class, more and more millennials are entering the workforce. Although Gen Y, a.k.a. “millennials,” born between the early 1980s and 2000, are often viewed as lazy or entitled this new generation can be a great asset to your business. Read on to learn how to make working with Gen Y employees a strength for your business. Gen Y Strengths – Tech savvy, especially with social media- Strong multi-taskers – Hold high expectations of themselves and employers- Prefer to collaborate and work in teams- Seek...
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