Jun 12, 2009
If you choose to consult deeply and over the long term with small business entrepreneurs from the early stages of their companies, this is the moment when a good consultant must stay the course, and you must stay next to your client through to the end, without...
Jun 10, 2009
Mr. or Ms. Entrepreneur, if you have run out of options and it is time to plan your endgame, now is the time to be calm. If, to be calm, you must break down and emote, start now. Be mad, be glad, be sad, say everything that is socially unacceptable to say...
Jun 7, 2009
As I had said in October 2008 when the banks began failing, we are in for a long recession and a serious failure rate among small business owners. I listen to the economists every day and understand that the current (Q2/2009) uptick in the stock market is a “leading”...
May 29, 2009
You know, sometimes your value as a consultant lies not only in your deliverables, but in your “hidden roles” – skills that may be invisible to the client and the team, but which require years to refine. These hidden roles are never written into your contract. Mastery...
May 20, 2009
About 10 minutes into a 3-hour presentation on entrepreneurship in Qatar, on film, just warming up myself and the audience, the handler interrupted to announce that the cars in a certain parking area were about to be towed, and would those car owners please move their...
May 5, 2009
CEOs of early-stage companies rarely have enough bandwidth to handle what is expected of them. And they tend, correctly, to hire CxOs or VPs to handle technology, finance, marketing and sales, and to not hire a COO. This wise CEO is focused on two primary goals:...
