Month: August 2013
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The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are at the forefront of the 21st century. Look back 50 years at the cultural heroes who made the cover of Time magazine or any of the other periodicals, and you’ll see military or political leaders, artists, or scientists. Today, they’re people like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs. So there’s a growing…
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Who’s At Coach: Michael Williams
My name is: Michael Williams. I’m an entrepreneur with a specialty in: accelerating entrepreneurial businesses and pioneering “unreasonable” ideas. My company is: Mosaic. We are an unreasonable business accelerator. What we do is: At Mosaic, we are entrepreneurs developing entrepreneurs. We partner with organizations to unleash the wisdom, strengths, and innovations that already exist within…
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Do You Let Your Team Create New Stuff?
Why are we all smiling in this picture? Because we genuinely love the work we do, and we feel like we own it! In addition to the Strategic Coach Program for entrepreneurs, we also offer workshops for team members, young adults, and spouses. The fun thing for us as team members is that we’re the…
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Mastering Intelligent Resistance: How do you manage collaboration and innovation?
Obstacle, roadblock, stick-in-the-mud, complication, hindrance, negative-nelly, barrier, obstruction, wet blanket, non-collaborative, hurdle. What are … things I don’t want to be seen as? Especially in a fast-moving, ever-changing, innovation-rich entrepreneurial environment. The subject of teams not “engaging” with the new ideas our clients excitedly take back to their offices comes up a lot in workshops.…