The Plight of Any Startup Entrepreneur in Stop Motion
Beyond my consulting with business owners and executives of already-established businesses, I continue to meet a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs / entrepreneurs-in-progress and have been passing along a lot of my lessons-learned to help them on their journey in attaining their dreams. Every now and then, when I need to decompress my brain a bit, I scour the interwebs on ...
Continue ReadingCreating a Platform for Entrepreneurs to Pitch to Investors – Wharton Alumni Business Showcase 2011
I must say that I have a strong affinity for the startup world – meeting bright, interesting and engaging people and being exposed to promising opportunities that comprise this world, so playing a role for this event was truly an honor for me. Following up on a recently released Wall Street Journal article by Ralph Gardner, I had served as ...
Continue ReadingWhat Aspiring Entrepreneurs can Learn from Improvisational Theater
Last night was one of the first nights I’ve had a bit of down time for myself in a while and accidentally happened upon Comedy Central’s First Annual Comedy Awards. Why it took them so long to come out with an awards show, I don’t know, but I’m happy they finally got around to it. Without a doubt, the awards ...
Continue ReadingNew Year – A Time to Remember, Reassess, Reprioritize, Reorganize and Reinvent (5R’s to Break the Funk)
Resetting the clock at the top of the year always gives us an opportunity to set resolutions to ourselves, whether attainable or not. For most, it’s a fairly superficial exercise but if approached from an honest and constructive perspective, some of our deepest desires may surface so that we can acknowledge how much we lack in order to attain the ...
Continue ReadingCombining One’s Emotional Intelligence with Ethos, Pathos and Logos in Business
Oftentimes, I find myself referring to Aristotle’s modes of persuasion or appeal in context to building meaningful relationships in business: ethos (credibility, ethical appeal or “character”), pathos (emotional), and logos (logical). Whether people are aware of the different tools at-hand, many use the different modes in varying degrees for different situations and people. In terms of the types of social ...
Continue ReadingBeing a Confident Listener Is Just As Important As Being a Confident Speaker
To cut to the chase of what could have potentially turned into a heated debate from tonight, I had a conversation with someone who insisted that he was listening to what I was saying, when really he wasn’t, but when I put it another way he finally understood where I was coming from. Sound familiar? Well, that’s because he didn’t ...
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