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Why Your Identity Is Your Business Strategy
I’ve interviewed more than 175 entrepreneurs over the past five years. One pattern keeps surfacing that most people miss entirely. The entrepreneurs who build the most innovative businesses aren’t the ones with the most resources…
The Fear That Stops Most Entrepreneurs Cold
The biggest obstacle holding entrepreneurs back isn’t what you’d expect. It’s not lack of capital. Not market timing. Not even competition. It’s the fear that they don’t know what they need to know. This fear…
Healthcare Entrepreneurship Works Despite Impossible Odds
Sara Beal left a stable position as a psychiatric nurse practitioner to start her own practice in Florida. This decision makes no rational sense on paper. Healthcare is one of the most regulated industries in…
Healthcare Professionals Are Abandoning Corporate Medicine
Patricia Delgado watched her workplace transform overnight. The private equity acquisition changed everything. Patient care became secondary to revenue targets. The focus shifted from healing to billing. She saw what was coming and made a…
Why This Entrepreneur Delivered 600 Orders Himself
Mike Magee could have hired delivery drivers from day one. He had the business plan, the restaurant partnerships, and the customers waiting for their catered lunches. Instead, he grabbed the orders and hit the road…
Learning my way through 2024 – Will you join me?
Happy new year and welcome to 2024! Last year I published a short message on my blog site to the En Factor® community about fresh starts and the opportunities that a new year can bring. …
Voices of Vision: Celebrating a Milestone of 100 Episodes with En Factor’s Most Inspirational Entrepreneurial Journeys
Four years ago, I launched a new podcast, the En Factor®, with the intention of sharing and archiving stories of how an entrepreneurial mindset can shape people, organizations, and communities. After several decades of teaching…
A new year, new opportunities and a fresh start
Each year, the celebration of the start of a new calendar year occurs worldwide. At that time it is not hard to find a gathering of people in every community and neighborhood around the world….
A Painful Lesson on the Importance of Intellectual Honesty
A few months ago, early in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes and her alleged fraud with her startup, Theranos, columnist Andy Kessler wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Failure is Always an Option.” In his article, Mr. Kessler provided…
Gratitude: Good news, bad news – who knows
After nearly two years of coping with the isolation required by a worldwide pandemic, we are finally able to spend time with people again. Most of us are truly grateful for much of what we…
Exploring Your Entrepreneurial Competencies
I have to admit that I love taking personal development tests and assessments. As you may know, if you follow my blog and other work, I am a big fan of reflection as an instrument…
Creative Destruction
With the death of Steve Jobs a few years ago, our world experienced the passing of arguably the most influential innovator of our time. As an entrepreneur he was driven to impact the world and…
Starting
Tomorrow I will welcome a brand new cohort of students into the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship program at the University of Tampa. Every fall and spring, I have the opportunity to teach the first…
Fear of Failure
A few weeks ago, I announced the pre-sale of my new book See, Do, Repeat: The Practice of Entrepreneurship, which will be available in early September, 2021. Writing this book over the past year has been…
Choosing Yourself
This week is an exciting one for me. My new book See, Do, Repeat: The Practice of Entrepreneurship, which will be available in early September, 2021, is now online for pre-sale purchase here! Over the past year,…
The Pioneer Entrepreneurship
This week I was invited to describe the impact one of my colleagues has had on the discipline of entrepreneurship. When I thought about him, and his work, the first adjective that came to mind…
Bravery, Hope and Entrepreneurship
A few months ago, I was in a meeting with a friend and colleague who leads an entrepreneurship program on the West Coast. We were discussing a conference we want to hold that would highlight…
It’s Summer – Time to Travel!
Ahh – it’s summer in the northern hemisphere! Longer days and summer vacations. This is the time of year when most of us slow down a bit and seek out some time for rest and…
Entrepreneurship Education – the Great Equalizer
Recently I was reading about the role of education in alleviating poverty. It is often difficult to find the causes- like a tree, poverty has many roots. However, experts seem to agree that one of…
Reflections on Learning
I recently had the chance to talk with Sean Green and Eric Heiert, the co-founders of Safehouse in Austin, TX. These young men were high school classmates and friends of my son and daughter so…