What 15 years as a stay-at-home mom taught me about entrepreneurship

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New days. Fresh starts. 2012 will be full of them, and I’m committed to finding new “blue oceans” to explore for our clients—leaders in the energy, engineering, financial, pension, and commercial real estate industries. Not too long ago, however, my clients were my children (pictured at left). Not only did they not pay me for [...]

Do you Blamestorm? Stop Blaming – Start Doing

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Outside my office I have an 8.5 x 11 copy of Spirit Lexicon (Online Dictionary) entry no 1,210. The word: “Blamestorming” Spirit Lexicon has “blamestorming” defined as; 1. Business meeting that devolves into finding fault for projects gone wrong rather than looking for successful results. 2. A discussion between colleagues involving major finger pointing. Its usage example reads [...]

The Entrepreneur and the Co-Laborers

Deeter Gallaher Group employees Marisa Corser and Andrew Dymski.

Veteran entrepreneur and author of Great Again: Revitalizing America’s Entrepreneurial Leadership, Henry R. Nothhaft (@Great_Again), writes “100% of net job growth in the U.S. comes from entrepreneurial start-ups, as a Kauffman Foundation report documented in 2010” and “When it comes to U.S. job growth, start-up companies aren’t everything. They’re the only thing.” (The Wall Street [...]

To Get To The Other Side

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It’s what the chicken does that makes us ponder his motivation. We see noble young men helping old ladies do this in the movies. Crossing the street and getting to the other side is a normal part of an urban existence and also has some amazing parallels to the risks and rewards of the entrepreneur. [...]

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