Posts Tagged ‘BEST Coaches’
How Do YOU Manage Breakdowns
“Plan B? We don’t HAVE a Plan B!” I said, sounding exasperated to my business partners. We were to have our big event in less than two weeks.
You see, we only had about 13 registered people for our Summit last month and we were concerned we would not fill the event, the first of its type in NYC. What message would THAT send to the world that there were not enough Green Entrepreneurs interested in scaling up.
Some of the members of our team wanted a Plan B in case our goal of 40 attendees did not happen. And I could certainly understand why. We’d invested a lot of time and energy and what if things did not turn out? How do we manage the project? Read the rest of this entry »
Six Parts to Managing a Public Crisis
For the first time in recent memory I found myself yelling at a client last Thursday. He had just finished telling a group of us on his core team that he had been withholding crucial information.
How Entrepreneurs Deal With the Challenges of Getting Funded
“I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”
Morgan Freeman -1937, actor
We all know raising money can be really tough. But some entrepreneurs make it look easy. Ron and David are two of those people.
As CEO, Where Do You Spend Most of Your Time?
On Monday I had a room of 30+ entrepreneurs glaring at me. They had just been told that where they should be spending most of their over-worked and overwhelmed working lives wasn’t even close to what they have been doing.
It started when I asked them how much time they spend in the following three basic areas of (any) business:
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