Life-in-Progress

The Entrepreneurial Legacy to Gen Y

Like many of my peers in Generation X, my parents and my grandparents have never really understood what I do for a living. My parents use the web, so it’s not entirely outside their comprehension, but when it comes to my grandparents: I may as well be communicating with aliens via mental telepathy. Being an [...]

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Is entrepreneurship a means or an end?

For some people entrepreneurship is a philosophy. For others, it’s the price we pay for an idea we are passionate about. But what’s the difference? And, even more importantly, why does it matter? I think it matters most if you are in a B2B business yourself. As a business that serves the needs of other [...]

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From Employee to Entrepreneur – The New Workforce

Virtualization, globalization and economic changes convert long-time employees into (sometimes reluctant) entrepreneurs.

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Free Tools for Entrepreneurs – WordPress

The single biggest struggles I encounter with entrepreneurs trying to build a business is marketing.  Some small business owners don’t think about it; some don’t understand it; some don’t like it; some cling to the belief that it simply shouldn’t be necessary, as long as their product is good enough.  One way or another, though, [...]

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Can You Learn To Do, Instead of By Doing?

I am guilty of a great many assumptions. There are a lot of things that I take for granted — the types of things that come naturally to me, the perspective I have on things, the business insights I rely on, the experiences I draw from — are all things that frequently turn out to [...]

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It’s Not a Career Path, It’s a Career Highway

As a career management advocate turned Entrepreneur Evangelist, I recently had an epiphany that clarified some of the change I’ve experienced over the past two years, as I’ve moved from my old life to my new one. I’ve been lacking an effective metaphor to describe both the process and my present (and potentially future) state. [...]

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A ‘No Vacation Policy’ Policy

Last spring, I was reading the annual WorldBlu list of the most democratically run organizations in the world. One of the companies that caught my eye was one whose democratic organizational practices included eliminating a formal vacation day policy. I remember making a mental note of the idea, because I liked it and wanted to [...]

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