To create a potential great venture, you must nail passion, vision, opportunity, and uncommon offering. It sets the ceiling on your potential and greatness is certainly possible with these components in place. However, just because you have nailed them does not mean that greatness is inevitable. You must check the viability of your venture regardless [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
For Great Ventures™: Start with Passion, Vision, Opportunity, and Uncommon Offering
The starting point, or turning point, for all great ventures occurs at the intersection of passion, vision, opportunity, and uncommon offering. You can have a good venture without all four components. However, in order to create or have a great venture, you must nail each component.
Passion is the fuel of your enterprise. It gets you [...]
Double-Dip Recession! Do you have a Contingency Plan?
If you have been listening to any of the news reports the last few days, you have heard references to a 20% to 30% chance of a Double-Dip Recession. What does that mean? It means things could to get worse again before they get better!
Last fall, Jim Collins presented at the Gazelles Growth Summit and discussed the [...]
For Great Ventures™: The New Mental Model for Post-Recession Success
The world has dramatically changed since the Great Recession that began in 2008. We no longer live in a world of perceived stability and certainty. We live in a world of perceived instability and uncertainty and many have predicted that it will remain that way for some time. We are really all on our own [...]