Posts tagged leadership
The 4 Traits You Need to Be a Great Leader on OPEN Forum
“Great leadership doesn’t happen overnight. There’s no 6-week course that will suddenly turn you into George Washington or Jack Welch. Great leadership is built brick by brick over many years with each decision and every mistake you make. Done correctly, great leadership stands on a rock solid foundation.” Brian Moran, Publisher, At Home with Century 21 Magazine
What type of person and leader do you aspire to be? The words you choose to describe your leadership style are your leadership cornerstones. Read more on how to choose four cornerstones that define you as a leader.
(via The 4 Traits You Need to Be a Great Leader | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)
My art teacher in college told us about a reporter who asked Picasso why he chose to paint. His response was, ‘That is a silly question; why does a bird fly?”
That is exactly how I feel as an entrepreneur. I do it because I have to do it. It’s who I am.
Rob Honeycutt of Timbuk2 on what motivates him to be an entrepreneur and why he will never retire.
Read more of OPEN Forum’s exclusive Q&A with Honeycutt.
Stay Hungry: 3 Ways to Reawaken Your Entrepreneurial Drive on OPEN Forum
The tedium of owning a business can get to even the most die-hard entrepreneur. Use these tricks to get your passion back and be re-inspired.
1. Value Trivial Motivations
2. You, Here and Now
3. “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!”
Click here to read more on these suggestions to help re-start your business drive and invest your heart and soul into every project and task.
(via Stay Hungry: 3 Ways to Reawaken Your Entrepreneurial Drive | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)
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With so many mom and pop shops opening, and then quickly closing, the way to win in small business is endurance and outlasting the competition. This infographic provides data on the longevity of small businesses and how your business can live into it’s old age.
(Via Intuit)
The 99% Success Formula on Inc.com
1. Know where you’re starting from (A).
2. Know where you want to be (B).
3. Build a plan to get from A to B.
4. Take massive action based on that plan.
5. Observe whether you’re closer to B.
6. If the plan is working, double down on step 4.
7. If the plan isn’t working, go back to step 3.
Why It Pays to Be Humble by Gary Vaynerchuk on OPEN Forum
These days, starting a new company, pivoting or bringing your existing company into the tech field is common fare for the small-business owner. In this video, expert and experienced entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk offers his best advice on how to succeed when you’re entering unknown territory. Hint: it’s much more discreet than you’d think.
(via Why It Pays to Be Humble | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)
Introducing the “Lean” Meeting on OPEN Forum
“Death by meeting” is a common complaint, the lament usually being one of frequency, length, or lack of productivity.
Start with a simple three-point strategy to make your meetings more lean:
1. Limit yourself to keep it under 12 minutes.
2. Only have meetings around a single purpose or goal.
3. Unsocial meetings.
(via Hold More Meetings–Just Keep Them Short | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum)
Three Reasons Every Leader Needs a Blog
Do you have a blog? If not, here are three reasons why you should motivate yourself to start one:
1. Leaders Need a Place to Think Out Loud
2. Blogs Encourage You to Keep Learning
3. Blogs Introduce You to New Connections
(Via LinkedIn)
It can be daunting to make conversation with a fellow CEO or high powered executive that you respect when you are caught off guard, especially when you are stuck riding the elevator 30 floors down.
Mashable created these 3 conversation types to help you next time you are at a loss for words with a CEO:
1. The Trader Joe - think Hawaiian shirts and a laid back vibe for an easy going chat.
2. The Tactful Admirer - a compliment to a senior executive on an accomplishment will never fail to kick off conversation.
3. The Travel Talker - all business leaders travel, so use that to your advantage in your opening line.
Read more on Mashable for some more executive elevator-talk.
(via Caught in an Elevator With the CEO? 3 Conversation Starters)
One Thing You Might Have in Common with Sheryl Sandberg on OPEN Forum
The main reason women business owners can’t have it all? A recent survey by Manta of 1,000 female entrepreneurs reveals their biggest challenge is not having the help they need to run their business (26 percent).
One in four of the 95 percent of women in the survey who are moms say running a business is more difficult than raising kids, while 69 percent think they’re equally difficult jobs.
it’s interesting that the biggest challenges these entrepreneurial moms face aren’t unique to moms, but are shared by almost every small-business owner. Married or single, male or female, parents or not, we can all relate to not having enough “hands on deck” and wishing we had an experienced advisor we could turn to at all times to help us out.
Read more on the takeaways of this survey on OPEN Forum.
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