Archive for March, 2007

Stuart Skorman on creativity and contradictions

“Know your strengths and weaknesses. Creativity is my biggest strength. (It’s a weakness too.) But that doesn’t mean all entrepreneurs need to be creative to be successful. “You can buy creativity, you can hire creative people, you can steal creative ideas, and you can even learn to be more creative… It’s not important to be [...]

Tom Peters: being weird works

“Feeling a little weird lately? Take time to see where your passion and entrepreneurial spirit is calling you. “Even in corporate America, the entrepreneurial spirit must remain alive. That spirit can solve the toughest of corporate problems, if only we let it.” From The Entrepreneurial Spirit – by Tom Peters~~

Purpose and passion energize our endeavors

This is an image from the Metropolitan Opera staging of The Magic Flute a couple of years ago, by film and theater director Julie Taymor. She confirms how important passion is for her: “I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about. I’m not going [...]

Thinking like an entrepreneur – not an employee

Mike Litman video: “You Can’t Succeed As An Entrepreneur Thinking Like An Employee” Read Mike Litman articles [opens in new window]. ~~~

Hypomania and being an entrepreneur

“Crushing poverty and unimaginable wealth. Bitter feuds and brilliant collaborations. Ambition bordering on megalomania. A motorcycle crash. A suicide. A $30 million sailboat. “Is this the tale of a computer tycoon or a rock ‘n’ roll star? Highlights from the life of a business mogul or the outline of a sensational pulp novel? In the [...]