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According to a recent study, for the past 10 years, adults aged 55 to 64 have been the group most likely to start a new business. The study was conducted by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation which promotes entrepreneurship. And now that baby boomers are reaching retirement age, the trend is only going to grow. People are living longer and […]
» Read moreThis is one of the most common questions I get. Should I do my marketing online or should I stick to traditional (offline) marketing? The short answer is “Use both”. The mix of these two approaches will be determined by the industry you are in, what your competitors do, but most important of all – who your target market is. […]
» Read moreResearch on overconfidence suggests that excess levels of confidence can create self perceptions of invulnerability (Camerer & Lovallo, 1999; Hayward & Hambrick, 1997; Malmendier & Tate, 2005) which result in lower levels of effort on some tasks. Hubris theorists argue that when entrepreneurs and managers are overconfident they suffer from biases in making decisions about which courses of action to […]
» Read moreWhy a perfect system? Is it a system that does not go wrong? Perfect in every sense? One that is set up and runs faultlessly forever? One that needs no tweaking, modification or adaptation? To tell you the truth, it is none of the above, unless you still believe in fairy tales, … or the stork. Perfect System – it […]
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It’s not that I hate the word “turnaround”. I don’t particularly like it either. It suggests that you’ve made a bad mistake! Who wants to make mistakes… right? Imagine you’re driving on the highway to a party, it’s late, your wife’s been on your case since you left the house 2 hours ago… “We’re going to be late… we’re ALWAYS […]
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