5 most important lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur

When Guy Kawasaki writes a post under the title:
‘5 most important lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur’
you just have to check it out.
I especially like ‘Make a little progress every day’ in which Guy goes back on his once held believe that a big marketing splash could launch a business ‘to infinity and beyond’. [...]

More Bill Strickland – Make the Impossible Possible

I am just re-reading this book before I lend it out – and it is blowing me away even more the second time through!
If you want to get a flavour of what Bill Strickland is about try these videos. There is only about 15 minutes worth in total.  And then please let [...]

Building the Entrepreneurial Team

Successful entrepreneurs build successful teams. They build successful management teams and they also build personal partnerships with great coaches, mentors and technical advisors who help them to make the most of their own potential and to develop their business ideas.
Building the Entrepreneurial Team
Great entrepreneurs recognise that they need to play to their strengths and [...]

What the Policy Exchange Got Wrong

Last weeks Policy Exchange report that wrote off cities in the North failed to take account of what really makes the difference to the success of any community – social capital.
The success of any community depends more on the intelligence, passion and co-operation [...]

Role Models Matter in Enterprise

I was struck by a couple of Olympic stories this morning.
The first was the withdrawal from the hurdles of China’s track superstar Liu. One of the Chinese newsreaders was in tears as she announced his withdrawal from the 110m hurdles. When as`ed why, when they had already won 35 gold medals this particular [...]

When an RDA Outplaces

So the LDA are seeking outplacement services to support a ‘rightsizing’ that is taking place.  Now you would think that for an organisation charged with supporting enterprise they might take an enterprising approach to this opportunity.
So what do they seek to commission?
“Outplacement Support: In order to ensure staff potentially affected by these changes are well [...]

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship: The Passion, Beauty and Pain

So the Olympics come around again and our television screens, newspapers and browsers are filled with images of passion, beauty and pain.
Perhaps nowhere more so than in the Gymnastics Hall where hours of painful practice over many years are put to the test in few seconds of immense pressure. Everything is put on the [...]

Engaging in Enterprise

“If you want to reach people no one is reaching you’ll have to do things that no one else is doing. In order to do things that no one else is doing you can’t do what everyone else is doing.”
Craig Groeschel
Craig is a preacher in the US and this quote was in the context [...]

Ripples from the Zambezi – Introduction

Sirolli introduces his book as the results of years or practice in the art of economic development through person centred development or facilitation.
He describes the growth of Enterprise Facilitation™ through word of mouth advertising and client testimonials.
He describes how current interest in entrepreneurship has made the work of spreading his methodology more straightforward. As [...]

Arts, Crafts and Enterprise

I recently spent a day touring some of the enterprise development projects being supported by LEGI (in whole or in part) in Leeds.
The variety in the physical spaces that we visited was incredible:

an old warehouse that had been converted to shared work spaces rented by the hour by aspiring artists (screen printing, wood working, jewelry [...]