Is Integrity in Entrepreneurship only for those who do not know how to do business?
Integrity. An integral part of Sustainable Entrepreneurship. Easy to say. Slightly more tricky to live out. In fact, I do have my doubts about people who are way too quick to proclaim they are in line for the Integrity of the Month Award. If you look at the diverse range of definitions on the internet,…
Be thankful for your crap
Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Prosperity is our biggest detriment Do you know what you do not know? Have you ever heard of little Miss Chic who thought for the first 32 days of her life, that the farmer is there to care for her, feed her and keep her safe? Only to get a massive wake-up call…
Are you the spanner or the works of Sustainable Entrepreneurship?
The management gurus tell us that we have to keep referring back to our ‘Why’s’. Easier said than done. It is way too easy to get caught up in the latest get-rich-quick scheme, the stresses, and strains of keeping up with the Joneses, and above all the is-it-worth-it questions that we face on a regular…
Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Here today, not gone tomorrow
What is sustainable entrepreneurship and why should we care? We live in a super fast-paced world with an insane amount of competition, stresses, and strains. It is as easy as falling out of a tree to get caught up in the madness. How to be a millionaire in ten weeks. If your dreams do not…
Are you in love with yourself? Maybe you should be.
Are you in love with yourself? Maybe you should abondon everything you were taught about self-love. Valentine’s Day: To kill or not to kill I was brought up that it is completely wrong to be ecocentric. To be self-centered and self-obsessed is supposed to be a really bad trademark. But then again, never believing in…
Startup Rates for Women Entrepreneurs dropped by 15%
Startup rates for women dropped by 15% from 2019 to 2020, and held constant in 2021. Women also experienced sharper declines than men in their intentions to start a business within three years and overall startup rates in 2020, but not in upper-middle income countries. These are the findings published today in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2021/2022 Women’s Entrepreneurship…
Stepping Up or Crashing Out?
Take massive action! If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough! The textbooks are overflowing with wisecracks like these that leave the good guys feeling deflated and inadequate. The reality is that if we want sustainable business growth, we need to ensure that the steps we take are small enough that we…
The Bamboo Effect
Nothing makes for a better story than someone’s overnight success. The world is filled with overnight success stories and we secretly all want our own overnight success story. The reality however is that there is no such thing as an overnight success. Never was and never will be. According to the World Genius Record Association Bamboo is…
Are you a waiter or a doer?
When is the right time to start? In my practice, I often hear people saying: “I can’t start now. Give me until next week, next month, next year.” I must admit, normally people are fairly drained at the end of a year and they do not feel the capacity to start something new now. Nope. …
Kissing your way to business success
Introducing the KISS Business Model We often lose our sense of business adventure in the detail. There are just so many permutations to consider! Logistics, production, revenue and so the list goes on and on until all these dilemmas find themselves into your nightmares. There seems to be a common perception that you have to…
