All Entries in the "Entrepreneurs" Category
Open source for the mind on Culture & Tribes.
Why should culture be important to you? Because it’s the invisible glue that holds a group of people together – a business, an organization, any group, your family, your online community, etc. Culture is the system of agreements, the experiences, the beliefs, values, attitudes, that are subscribed to, that are bought into. A group so aligned is a “tribe” (aka community). Here’s open source knowledge for the mind – a free audio book on “Tribal Leadership” about organizational culture.
FraserNet CEO Commits $350 Million To Help Black Students Build Their Personal Networks
George C. Fraser, Founder and Chairman of FraserNet, Inc. and the PowerNetworking Conference makes nearly a $350 million dollar commitment to help Black students build their personal support network of relationships. The program is entitled; TheYESNet; The Youth Empowered to Succeed Network. The Network’s goal is to provide 1 million Black students (ages 17-25) with free and easy access to critical contacts and other networking products and services over the next 5 years. A student membership is valued at $349 each, but will be underwritten by FraserNet, and provided free of charge to students 17-25 years old.
How to land on your feet when your company downsizes and you’re forced to exit.
“Layoffs attributed to business demand factors (especially slack work or insufficient demand) accounted for more than 500,000 worker separations, the highest annual level on record.” Those are the statistics and stats aren’t people. The numbers don’t communicate how people feel and what they do to handle this “separation”. How do people rebound from being fired [...]
Wise Words for Wannapreneurs
Wannapreneur: A person who talks about organizing and managing enterprises, esp. businesses, usually with considerable initiative and risk, but never actually does. If you’ve decided the answer to your economic situation is to move from government or corporate work to become an entrepreneur but haven’t taken the plunge, you may be a wannapreneur. Here’s a [...]
Dr. Joel Martin eWomenNetwork International Conference Speaker
On July 16, 2010 you will find Dr. Joel P. Martin on the stage inspiring, entertaining, and educating women with her power presentation on “How To Be A Positively Powerful Woman”. The break out session for eWomenNetwork’s International Conference & Business Expo will be from 11:45am to 12:45pm in Dallas’ Hyatt Regency. Dr. Martin an [...]
Lorena Valencia 2010 Positively Powerful Woman Entrepreneur
Lorena Valencia, President/CEO, Reliance Wire & Cable is selected as this year’s Positively Powerful Woman Entrepreneur Award Recipient for her business success and leadership of nonprofit organizations especially The Grand Canyon Minority Supplier Development Council. She is the GCMSDC Council MBEIC Chair and national MBE co-chair of the upcoming National MSDC Convention. Lorena’s motto is [...]
The Winner’s Summit: All that and more.
Enthusiasm. Passion. Engaged. Informative. Caring. Business-like. Connecting the dots. Collaborative. Customer service. Use of social media. These and many more accolades go to the event producers and planners who get it right. As a speaker, I experienced this most recently at The Winner’s Summit produced by Deborah Hardnett. The audience was prep’d and ready for my message “Transformation’s In The [...]
What does Diversity look like today?
This is a pause for the cause – a different way of viewing the dimensions of diversity. Diversity, it has often been said, goes beyond race and gender. It includes generations, race, gender, organizational diversity, nationality, culture, recreational habits, personality and more. At the heart of it, regardless of their dimensions, is a human being [...]
To Whose Knowledge does a Belief Belong?
Most people still believe that “Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of Day” and that was probably true when it was first said.
Leadership – Take A Step Forward – Or Else
So if we are not going forward and more importantly making certain that we are taking others with us, then we are standing still, watching life happen to us, victims of your own inaction.
