2 Deadly Startup Mistakes Every Entrepreneur Should Beware Of
It’s been 27 years since I started my last business. Although I was a solo entrepreneur working out of the basement of a small, dingy office building when I started,…
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Positive State of Mind
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Your state of mind determines your success. If you want to build a growth-oriented company, you need to develop the right frame of mind, and then strategies before you get to work.
What is The Peter Principle, and How Can You Rise to Your Level of Incompetence to Win in Business?
Before I dive into The Peter Principle, and what it means to rise to your level of incompetence, I want to relate a story. It was early 2013, and I…
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Why Being an Entrepreneur is Hard, But Here’s Why You Should Do it Anyway!
Let me share a story with you to illustrate why being an entrepreneur is hard. Are you interested in the following job posting? Entrepreneur Wanted! We’re looking for someone who…
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3 Top Reasons Why Startups Fail and How Not to Become a Victim
My biggest business failure was in 1999, and once you’re finished reading, you’ll understand why startups fail. Things were going well with the telecom business that I started in 1991.…
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Is Your Small Business Not Growing And Stuck? Do This
Is your small business not growing? We all have our strengths. The challenge for most of us, me included, is to recognize where our strengths are to double down on…
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How to Develop Your Personal Vision and Define Your Life’s Success
I had an interesting Easter long weekend in mid-April. I’m originally from Montreal and now live in Toronto. As a result, most of my immediate family, sisters, their husbands, parents,…
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Want to Stop Micromanaging Your Staff? Try This. It Will Work
When “Bob” (not his real name) finished college, he got a job at one of the large packaged goods companies that is based in New Jersey. Within a few years,…
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Is Being an Entrepreneur the World’s Crappiest or Best Job? Which Side of the Fence Do You Sit On?
Are you interested in the following job posting? Entrepreneur Wanted! We’re looking for someone who is willing to: work seventy hours a week for the next five years sacrifice family…
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The Top Six Kickass Entrepreneur Blog Posts of the Last Year, Including This One Which Is My Personal Favorite
It’s hard to believe that I’ve now written over fifty blog posts since I launched the kickassentrepreneur.com website and blog. Over the many months, I’ve received hundreds of positive comments…
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Inside Outside Upside Down. The Story of a Berenstain Bear and How the Book’s Message Will Help You With Your 2019 Goals.
Sitting on my daughter’s bedroom shelf, in a line of childhood books, many years long forgotten, is the story of Brother Bear in the book Inside Outside Upside Down. For…
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