Share I love reading articles that talk about what it takes to be an entrepreneur. It must be the fact that I have always been, and always will be, an entrepreneur. A recent article in the Globe and Mail “10 Lessons For Entrepreneurial Survival” by Glain Roberts-McCabe, is a good read, and, pretty accurate. Although I [...]
Share Ken and I recently shared a panel with Marcus Find, founder of Plenty of Fish, the largest online dating site in the world, at the SOHO small business expo. He has built a fascinating business, generating over130 million monthly visitors to his site, and he has done it virtually by himself. Let’s just say that we [...]
Share I have always set goals. When I was 12, I knew I wanted to play hockey at an Ivy League school. Either Cornell or Harvard. So I posted a picture of a Cornell hockey player (Joe Nieuwendyk) and a Harvard hockey player on my bathroom mirror. Along the way, I had a lot of offers, [...]
Share Meetings. Who likes them? Do you actually accomplish things in meetings? I just read a great post Schedule Another Meeting? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! It reminded me of how much I think most of the meetings we do are a waste of time. And of money. One of my mentors, Cameron Herold, taught [...]
Share At Nurse Next Door, we have added a second component in our hiring process to ensure culture fit. As both franchise and non-franchise businesses grow quickly, most don’t do accurate planning or bench building (the process where you are constantly look for people who could at some point, join your team), and hence [...]
Share I just read a post by a great entrepreneur, Chip Conley, who recently sold a majority stake in his boutique hotel chain, Joie de Vivre. Chip is known for building a company based on the premise of: “cultivating happy employees and engaging loyal and satisfied customers who refuse to stay anywhere else.” Their purpose? Creating [...]
Share If you have seen my speech about culture, you probably remember the part where I talk about how to operationalize your core values, and one of my examples is “you have to be willing to make the hard decisions.” In this example, I talk about how we fired a very large client of ours. [...]
Share In the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at MIT, when it came to core values, one of the biggest issues we found were that entrepreneurs are often guilty of creating too many core values. And there are good reasons for this: We aren’t typically great at focus, so 6-10 values doesn’t seem like too much to [...]
Share Funny. I am by no means a hiring expert. In fact, it pains me to sit through interviews. I hate it. But it is SO crucial to the success of an entrepreneur (one of my mentors has said – to be awesome entrepreneur , get awesome at hiring and awesome at rain making). So [...]
Share “The most important decisions aren’t the WHAT decisions, but the WHO decisions.” Jim Collins I just spoke to a SUPER engaged group of global entrepreneurs at the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at M.I.T for the 2nd year now (it used to be called the “Birthing of Giants”) and always a learn a ton when I [...]
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