Tue Jul 17/ 2007 – 5:09 pm MST
There is a fairly simple answer to the question – what does a business need? The answer is most often – more. More time, more money, more sales, more people, more equipment, more exposure, more innovation, more productivity – more.
Each of the individual items listed above are interchangeable. All of them can be replaced with […]
Fri Jul 13/ 2007 – 9:49 pm MST
The human mind is a funny thing… Built over the physical structure of the brain, with its trillions of neurons and synapses, and its bafflingly complex neurotransmitter soup, the mind is organized chaos. Well, sometimes mine is organized, other times, you take your chances…
At various times, the balances of the chemical soup changes,
Tue Jul 10/ 2007 – 1:08 pm MST
We took a look at an entrepreneur a few posts ago. Bernie’s outlook on life, his view of the world was quite unlike most people’s. In his view of human beings, those who take responsibility and assert control, particularly over themselves, are adults. He simply did not place trust in those who failed to do […]
Sat Jul 7/ 2007 – 9:44 am MST
In the 1800s, the attraction of natural resources in North America proved irresistible to a certain breed of person. The forests fed the European need for material for their ships, and the mines were a direct source of wealth, and then the underpinning of a primary manufacturing sector. The life for the (mostly) men who […]
Tue Jul 3/ 2007 – 7:09 pm MST
I introduced you to Bernie on my last post. Obviously, I have changed names and lines of business and some other details, but he was an unusual man, even amidst a class of entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurial Attributes
In my first post on an entrepreneur’s reality, I mentioned a number of attributes, and three fundamentals.
Sun Jul 1/ 2007 – 11:18 am MST
Bernie was fourteen when he took over the family business of salvaging construction materials. He faced challenges from a sceptical business community, and a family which worried about the risk to their primary asset. His father’s untimely passing had made it necessary.
Bernie had to abandon any aspirations for formal schooling, despite his intellectual talents, in […]
