Envisioning the step of stress testing growth when you are at the very beginning of your journey can seem like a huge and immensely challenging step outside your comfort zone. However, by the time you arrive at this step, you should have mastered the habit of stepping outside your comfort zone. And, if you have [...]
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For Great Ventures™: Master Planning for Ultimate Success
“I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I’d still land on my feet.”
– Eli Broad
Great ventures not only have basic plans to start them on a great course for their journey but they also develop master plans for ultimate success early on in their [...]
For Great Ventures™: Your Basic Plans to Start
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
In all things, planning serves a purpose. The purpose in NOT to develop perfect plans! It is to channel and challenge your advance worrying. It is to work through your thoughts and ideas on what is possible. [...]
For Great Ventures™: Checking Viability
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Building a Thriving High Potential Growth Business – personal and compelling vision
Once you find your true passions and build your burning desire to take regular action on those passions, it is time to create your vision for the future. Passion gets you excited, burning desire pushes you forward, and vision acts as your magnetic pull!
In its simplest form, the vision is an idea of or for [...]
Failing, Quitting, and Adapting are all parts of the road to Thriving Success!
Today, I officially closed down a non-profit organization I started over three years ago to improve the entrepreneurial environment for high growth entrepreneurs in Ohio. It was a surprisingly easy and rewarding thing to do in many ways. I believe it is because I gave it my best shot and I know that failing, quitting, [...]
Thriving during Tough Times Survival Tip #5: Expand Your Comfort Zone
The most important characteristic of survivors, in all contexts, is resiliency. Resiliency capacity is built through the management of energy. Nobody is immune to the effects of linear stress. We all must learn to create waves of stress and recovery. However, the waves are not meant to just maintain balance. They should be created in [...]
Thriving during Tough Times Survival Tip #4: Regularly use Motivational Mottos
Everything you do to survive and thrive in tough times should be backed with a motivational motto or theme to help get through the inevitable challenges along the way. Nothing is impossible but it all comes with challenges along the path. Motivational mottos and themes encourage, empower, and energize you when the times are toughest. [...]