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10 Skills You Need to Be the Next Great Entrepreneur
1. Seeing the big picture
2. Hunger to achieve
3. Courage
4. Functional competence
5. Prioritization and tradeoffs
6. A motivator of people
7. Decision-making
8. Adaptability
9. Initiative
10. Top down management style
(via 10 Skills You Need to Be the Next Great Entrepreneur | Inc.com)
Your Elevator Pitch Stinks. Here’s How to Fix It
With SXSW starting this Friday, your elevator pitch is more important than ever.
Here are some quick tips on how to nail it:
1. Start with a hook
2. Stop talking
3. Reel them in
4. Serve, don’t sell
Read more
(via Your Elevator Pitch Stinks. Here’s How to Fix It | Inc.com)
1. Prepare to Relinquish Some Control
2. Understand Your Strengths and Weaknesses
3. Select the Right Partner
4. Build a Partnership Consensus
5. Adopt a Strict Code of Ethics
6. Go beyond Your Committments
7. Be Patient With the Partnership
8. Monitor and Measure
9. Celebrate Frequently
We don’t always know what the future may hold, but we can certainly make predictions - keep a look out for some of these potentially revolutionary tech innovations in 2013.
Brooklyn-based extreme sports company Tough Mudder is set to rake in $60 million this year, and greatly credits Facebook ads for its success. Here’s what they did.
(via Facebook Advertising: A Facebook Ad Campaign That Actually Works | Inc.com)
Don’t let a bad morning ruin your entire day. Inc.com shares these mental tricks to change your momentum.
(via Positive Thinking: 7 Easy Ways to Improve a Bad Day | Inc.com )
Average bosses consider their company to be a machine with employees as cogs. They create rigid structures with rigid rules and then try to maintain control by ‘pulling levers’ and ‘steering the ship.’ Extraordinary bosses see their company as a collection of individual hopes and dreams, all connected to a higher purpose. They inspire employees to dedicate themselves to the success of their peers and therefore to the community–and company–at large.
Geoffrey James
(via Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses | Inc.com)
At my company, The Table Group, I can go around the table and tell you who will promote a conservative, keep-it-the-same-way approach and who will say ‘throw it out the window.’ I love that. I balance listening to the risk takers with ‘let’s make sure we’re not doing something stupid here, folks.’ There are a lot of ways to think about diversity on a team. You have to remember that people can look very different but have similar approaches to things like decision making and risk.
Patrick Lencioni on why you should have a diverse team.
There have to be enough people who want what you have to make a business. With as many people in the country as there are, that might seem an easy step. But you have to get their attention and market to them. Having a website and hoping that prospects stumble across you isn’t enough.
Startup advice from Erik Sherman.
What these studies showed, over and over, was that industrial workers have eight good, reliable hours a day in them. On average, you get no more widgets out of a 10-hour day than you do out of an eight-hour day.
Logging twelve hour days may make you FEEL more productive, but does it?
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