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3 TOP PEAK PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTICLES WEEK OF JANUARY 26, 2015
Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.
10 Medical Breakthroughs That Sound Like Science Fiction
These high-tech innovations just might save your life
By: Denny Watkins
The news that comes out of research universities and hospitals often sounds too hopeful: Here’s a gene that maybe, could potentially end obesity. This newly discovered protein pathway might sort-of, some day cure cancer. Do any of the thousands of studies published each year result in a meaningful change in someone’s life? Read More
My Comment: Grow life
Coach K Earns Career Win No. 1,000 in No. 5 Duke’s Win Over St. John’s
By: Scott Phillips
Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski reached a milestone by winning game No. 1,000 as the No. 5 Blue Devils bested St. John’s 77-68 on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.The Philippines will continue to rapidly change in 2015. Read More
My Comment: Congratulations Coach K!
9 Numbers Business Owners Need To Know
By: Rhonda Abrams
Every small-business owner needs to know some numbers – total revenue, profit margins, coast of goods, and the like. But there are other numbers that every entrepreneur needs to know to stay competitive and succeed. Read More
My Comment: What metrics/numbers drive your business?
3 TOP PEAK PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTICLES WEEK OF JANUARY 5 2015
Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.
Entrepreneurship is not about boundaries: Dr Subhash Chandra
By: dna Correspondent
An entrepreneur is someone who sees no boundaries and entrepreneurship is not about boundaries. This and several other life experiences were shared by Dr Subhash Chandra, chairman, Essel Group and Zee with several businessmen. Chandra was in city on the invite of the ?entrepreneurs to conduct Zee Media Corporation’s flagship show Dr Subhash Chandra (DSC) Show – an initiative that looks to give back to the society. Read More
My Comment: Excellent article about the mood, mindsdet, and motivation needed to use entrepreneurship to make something revolutionary happen
Create Your Own Job, HAH!
By: Martin Henry
We have opened up the new year with youth unemployment hovering around 40 per cent.
The unemployment number for the overall labour force is around 14 per cent. But we have to read these numbers bearing in mind what the Statistical Institute (STATIN) means by unemployment: Persons without work who are actively seeking work when the survey is done. The single largest block of workers in Jamaica is made up of those who have dropped out of the STATIN labour force and earn a money from one kind of hustling or another. Read More
My Comment: Good insights into entrepreneurship and its role in economic development and growth, and social prosperity.
9 Ways to Help Get You Out of That Bad Mood By: Sara Altschule
Sometimes you’re in a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mood. The sun might be shining, but all you can see are dark clouds up ahead. Bad moods can get the best of us. They grab hold of you tightly, making them hard to shake off. You have a choice – you can either let the darkness surround you, or you can try your best to break free of its grip. Read More
My Comment: Excellent article on the importance of mood. Consistently apply as needed to benefit from your infinite moods.
Entrepreneurial Shift: Better Results In Less Time
While networking I met a guy who had the same twelfth grade English teacher as me. He asked, what do I remember about her? I said, “she liked tools”. Besides teaching English, she felt a sense of nostalgia when she saw tools neatly stored on a peg board in a tool shed. I also remembered, it being the first time I gave a speech. Preparing was a daunting task; however, she gave the class a tool for speech preparation. Her tool was to open with something memorable to get the audience’s attention. Therefore, I opened my speech in French.
There is also an entrepreneurial thinking tool to be entrepreneurial. People associate being entrepreneurial with starting a business. This is a form of entrepreneurship, however, there is intrapreneurship (corporate entrepreneurship), and the application of entrepreneurial thinking in our work and daily living. People focus on creating a better service or product to be entrepreneurial. How do they come up with a creative innovative idea?
There are several entrepreneurial thinking tools to stimulate entrepreneurial ideas and determine whether your service and/or product are entrepreneurial. One of my entrepreneurial thinking tools is a simple graph showing better results vs. less time.
If your service and/or product can produce better results but not in less time then it’s not entrepreneurial. If your service and/or product can’t produce a better result but can be done in less time it’s not entrepreneurial. However, if your service and/or product can produce better results in less time then it’s entrepreneurial.
Examples: Carriage buggy vs. car, typewriter vs. computer, ship vs. plane, shorter route to work, learn a tip to make something easier to do in less time, no internet vs. internet, land line vs. cell phone, no exercise vs. exercise, no nutrition vs. nutrition
Therefore, take a look at the marketplace. Can you create an entrepreneurial shift (ES) by raising the bar to produce better results in less time? How about applying the tool in your productivity at work or in something you are passionate about at home?
By having an entrepreneurial tool you’ll reduce apathy and create natural endorphins seizing opportunity and stimulating you to the next level of success.
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INC. SMALL GIANTS COMMUNITY AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH RAJ GAVURLA
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Small GIANTS Community
Winning at Entrepreneurship: Author Interview with Raj Gavurla
By Glenn Burr on July 17, 2013
When it comes to Winning at Entrepreneurship sometimes it’s best to waste no time or words on overwrought and overinflated responses. Buckle in, strap-up and hang-on as ISGC Executive Director Raul Candeloro guides you through this fast-paced dialogue with Raj Gavurla, author of Winning at Entrepreneurship.
ISGC: Let’s begin by talking about yourself, so our readers can get to know you better. Could you briefly describe your life journey until you wrote Winning at Entrepreneurship?
Gavurla: While traveling as an automation and controls engineer on a business trip, I stopped at the airport bookstore and bought the Book of Business Wisdom edited by Peter Krass because it was important for me to learn more about business. Because of a health challenge and a calling to do something productive, I went into professional speaking to help families, businesses, communities, and schools. The Book of Business Wisdom inspired me to write Winning At Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial vigor, family, friends, community, and faith continue to enrich me.
ISGC: Now about the book. With already so many leadership books out there about, what new information does Winning at Entrepreneurship offer?
Gavurla: It focuses on the mindset, mood, and motivation an entrepreneurial leader needs to succeed.
ISGC: Could you give us an example out of Winning at Entrepreneurship that reflects your main ideas or concepts?
Gavurla: Entrepreneurs raise the bar to produce better results for clients and the marketplace to make lives better. That’s it!
ISGC: In a short sentence, what kind of person should be attracted to your book?
Gavurla: The person who is intrigued by entrepreneurialism and wants to use it as a vehicle to raise the bar by producing better results for clients and the marketplace to make lives better.
What kind of advice should they be looking for ?
The mindset, mood, motivation, and strategies they can apply to their situation.
Or what kind of problem should they be looking to solve?
ISGC: What’s the first thing you would like a reader to do after finishing Winning at Entrepreneurship?
Gavurla: Implement how it stimulated you to think for you to grow.
ISGC: What other books would you recommend for someone that wants more information about this?
Gavurla: Book of Business Wisdom, Business As A Calling, Grow Your Business, How To Be Like Mike
About your work as a consultant / business expert:
ISGC: What is the biggest mistake you see small business owners making in the areas covered by Winning at Entrepreneurship?
Gavurla: Not realizing the importance of taking their creative innovative idea and clarity of vision forward with effective communication, team, and execution.
ISGC: What suggestions would you give them to improve?
Gavurla: Identify better outcomes and then focus on daily results oriented action to get there. Don’t let anyone tell you “you can’t” when it would do a lot of good.
Where should they start?
Creative Innovative Idea (start here) + Clarity of Vision + Team (mentors, coaches, advisors, suppliers, clients) + Communication + Execution = Entrepreneurial Success
ISGC: What about managers and team leaders? In general, what do you think they should STOP doing if they wanted to improve their results?
Gavurla: Implement a system to empower their subordinates to collect ideas outside of regular work responsibilities, process the ideas, and use the above entrepreneurial success formula to help you create a path to grow them and you by managing/advising. Stop managing personalities instead make a path for them to execute with you providing relationship capital and support. You’re there to grow them to produce better results for clients and the marketplace to make lives better.
ISGC: Anything they should start doing more?
Gavurla: As a team, come up with executable creative innovative idea(s) to stimulate work endorphins. They’ll still have their core responsibilities. This requires proper management of their workload so they have time for each and then bring people up through the system. You’ll discover new leaders.
ISGC: After all the research you did for Winning at Entrepreneurship and based on all your experience in this area, what kind advice you see out there that you disagree with or think that is misleading?
Gavurla:
Entrepreneurialism isn’t for corporate. It’s only new companies. That’s not true. It’s for both!
You have to fail first to be successful. That’s not true.
ISGC: What are the VALUES that your company lives and dies by?
Gavurla: Integrity, involvement, imagination
ISGC: Why is this so important to you?
Gavurla: They guide me in doing good business.
ISGC: Any additional comments or thoughts for our readers?
Gavurla: Entrepreneurialism in business, government, and community got us out of the Great Depression and I trust entrepreneurial vigor will get us out of the Great Recession for greater prosperity. It will benefit all segments of the population.
Thank you!
Are you planning a meeting for this year or a kickoff meeting for early next year? Book Raj to speak to energize and inspire your team, organizaton or corporation to consistently perform at the top of our game! Call him at 864.569.2315 or contact him at raj@rajgavurla.com with your date, time and location to book your date today!