In the world of business, the goal is to turn a profit. While in the role of the entrepreneur, the goal is to innovate and facilitate. It seems that more and more people today are associating entrepreneurs with problem solvers. While there is accuracy to that statement, it isn’t what all great entrepreneurs do. Great entrepreneurs don’t always tackle the…
Motivation
Three Rules to Ensure Your First Business is Set Up for Success
Vision and creativity are two traits that new entrepreneurs typically believe they must hold in order to succeed. However, many of today’s best ideas were not born with complex systems, algorithms, or even change the way we do business; they were born with a simplistic approach of making something old simply great again.
Where There is No Challenge There is No Change
They say the biggest enemy of a great life is a good life, which is accurate in many ways regardless of from what perspective you look at it. As humans, we are creatures of comfort. Typically we have been programmed by society during our younger years only to fix what is broken, and to just work hard enough to be…
What I Learned After Interviewing Over 350+ Incredible Entrepreneurs
I’m often told how lucky I am to be able to converse with the 200+ successful entrepreneurs we’ve interviewed in the Secret Entourage Academy. As a successful businessman myself, I find it quite easy to relate on a uniform level to many of those incredible people I interact with every day. Part of what makes our interviews so compelling, powerful, and…
How to Kick Out a Co Founder – When Your Partner is Doing More Harm Than Good
Partnerships are hard and finding the right co-founder can be a pain-in-the ass that stays with you for quite some time – especially if you pick the wrong one. In many cases, people come together with a common vision, diverse skills, and the idea that a road travelled together will be easier than a road travelled alone. In some cases,…
Avoiding the Client from Hell – 4 Signs They’re Someone You Don’t Want to Work With
Someone once told me that money is money and if someone offers it – you should take it. This was 10 years ago; they were my only competition at the time and today they are out of business. I always use to think that I might risk going out of business if I was too picky when selecting who I…
You’re Fired! – 5 Things You Need to Know About Termination
In my corporate career, I have always found the best and most powerful employees because I knew and understood how to build the right teams. While I found 100’s of great success stories that I trained from the ground up, I also found half of that number in people that I replaced very quickly. In my ten years in corporate…