Culture is a Key Means to Reaching Your Goals

As someone who has written quite a bit about small business ethics, there is a trend that I find to be quite encouraging.  Entrepreneurs are paying a lot more attention to the cultures they create in their businesses.

The culture of a business defines and shapes how a company’s owners and employees act, think, and feel as they go about their work.  Culture sets the behavioral expectations and ethical standards in a company.  It guides how employees are expected to interact with each other, with customers, with suppliers, and so forth.

Businesses with well-developed cultures tend to have a stronger sense of ethical awareness among their employees.  All things being equal, these companies are also are more successful than those that do not intentionally build a strong culture.

So how should an entrepreneur go about building a strong culture in a business? Continue reading Culture is a Key Means to Reaching Your Goals

Entrepreneurial Career Requires Perseverance and Patience

Many of the young entrepreneurs I work with have the goal of becoming serial entrepreneurs.  They want a career that includes starting many new ventures.

However, what many of them fail to recognize is that becoming a successful serial entrepreneur means that they must be able to be a successful entrepreneur many times over.  Continue reading Entrepreneurial Career Requires Perseverance and Patience