"Highly effective entrepreneurs don’t make those mistakes. They play to the needs of their business, not to the skills and strengths they love or are good at. Great entrepreneurs tackle the biggest issues in their business. They make to-do lists that are dead honest about their biggest challenges, and then set to work solving them. They focus on what their business needs, even if it requires the greatest stretch of their skills." I couldn't put this book down! I made so many

The number of opportunities for entrepreneurs today is so vast that it's easy to get paralysed just trying to make up one's mind on what to do. Our recent podcast guest, Real Estate Entrepreneur, Joseph Rockey Jr got me thinking about what it's like to start something new. How do we decide on our next business move? After all not every business is for everyone. I believe we have to start by understanding our own zone of genius, and this isn't to say we have to be masters of

What is your role as a leader? There are so many theories about leadership covering what you should do and how you should do it? The only problem is that most are focused on transforming the leader with the hope that they will do enough work on themselves to make them influential. However, when I think about the most influential person in my life, they did one thing. They showed me who I could be. This is why I'm so excited to share our podcast conversation for this week with

Train your mind to innovate. Tamara Ghandour, President of LaunchStreet Consultancy and the creator of the proprietary Innovation Quotient Edge (IQE) assessment, says the innovative mind is similar to a muscle, the more it's used the stronger it gets and the easier you can access it on demand. As entrepreneurs it's critical to train our minds to be idea generating machines. We're in the business of problem solving and innovation. To take the IQE assessment and discover your u

What do you consider to be a lot of money? What level of decision maker are you comfortable talking to? How do you view your worth in the world? These are important questions to ask yourself says Merit Khan, CEO of SELLect Sales Development. For most of us it's hard to even imagine ourselves being as successful as other entrepreneurs in the same space simply because we've never had that kind of success and don't personally know anyone who has been there. The biggest problem w

Business development is more important that your offer says Merit Khan, CEO of SELLect Sales Development. It's one thing to come up with a great product or service. It's another whole thing to get it into the hands of paying customers. Both are important, but the latter is of greatest importance for the sustainability of your business. As early entrepreneurs we have to become marketers first. Learn everything you can about how to market your product or service. Trial and err