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These days, the word entrepreneur has become the most over used word in social media. The self descriptive title ‘"entrepreneur” is used too often, mostly without much merit or credibility. Whether you're fantasizing about leaving the daily grind of "employee-dom" or dropping out of school for what you think is the freedom and independence of "business ownership utopia", you may want to take a moment to first understand your "inner entrepreneur." Knowing yourself and understanding the "Inner Entrepreneur" (or lack of), may be more important than your vision and even the business model itself. Doing something entrepreneurial, doesn't necessarily make one an entrepreneur. Simply put, it's my opinion that true entrepreneurship is a journey and a lifestyle, rather than merely a single act or destination. It is powered by passion, creativity, purpose, instinct, courage (aka grace under pressure) and a unique charismatic confidence (sans arrogance) to go along with a never give up attitude. This book will also help you better understand how tho innovate to raise hell and articulate to raise capital in its capital raise section. Also covered in this book is effective leadership, the power of optimism and tips to help you become more successful in everything you do by following 15 simple daily actions! James Vena is an innovative and strategic thinker who has influenced key decision-makers globally in business development and revenue growth strategies. For more than thirty years, James has built a resume that encompasses a wide range of industries and expertise in sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, merger arbitrage, technology and executive management. He has successfully developed innovative, high growth businesses and restructured companies that immediately demonstrated accelerated sales and profit growth. His 30 year career has been marked by success across many countries and industries. This track record has established James’s credentials as both a seasoned internationally astute executive and a disruptive innovator with a quick and fearless mind to seize opportunities along with the ability to articulate the mission needed to achieve specific goals. Mr. Vena’s career started as a China trader of commodities in the early 1980’s for a large US firm. After 5 years, he founded his own trading company at 26 and over the next 20 years developed that company into an internationally recognized brand with offices in 24 locations in some 15 countries. After retiring as CEO and Founder of his global trading company to take a 5-year sabbatical in order to care for his cancer stricken wife and help raise the couple’s young children, the always energetic James unretired and re-entered the world of international business. However, this time focusing on his past experiences, leadership skills and entrepreneurial mind-set to help develop and grow small businesses and early stage ventures. James’s entrepreneurial mind-set and dynamic personality combined with high energy, passion and purposeful manner, makes him an effective inspirational and motivational communicator. James has been mentoring entrepreneurs, lecturing students and publicly speaking to corporate leaders on the importance of cultural awareness, social responsibility, entrepreneurship, benevolent capitalism, organizational ethics and his brand of ‘intellectual humility’ in the workplace.

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Entrepreneuriat

Business

Economics

Entrepreneurship

Employabilité, métiers et formations

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Publié par	Outskirts Press
Date de parution	03 janvier 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781478795223
Langue	English

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The Entrepreneur’s Edge
Tapping Into Your Inner Entrepreneur
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Copyright © 2018 James A. Vena
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Understanding Your Inner Entrepreneur (or Lack Thereof)
2. Entrepreneurs: Born or Made?
3. Entrepreneurship and the power of “Intellectual Humility”
4. The Myth of Business Ownership Utopia
5. Critics vs Cynics—Friend or Foe?
6. Contenders vs Pretenders—Talk Is Cheap, Always in Supply, Never in Demand!
7. Innovate to Raise Hell, Articulate to Raise Capital, Communicate to Raise Revenue
8. Entrepreneurship and Leadership Go Hand in Hand
9. Leadership, Business Success, and the Power of Optimism
10. My Closing Argument
More About the Author

Introduction
These days, the word “entrepreneur” has become the most overused word in social media. The self-descriptive title “entrepreneur” is used too often, mostly without much merit or credibility. I think it’s fair to say that people should not call themselves entrepreneurs unless someone else already has affixed the label to them.
Let’s be honest, in way too many cases, the word “entrepreneur” has been a label used by the unemployed who have been out of work and now are seeking a new job or transitioning into a new career, and “aspiring entrepreneur” is often used by underachievers and those looking for an excuse to avoid college or a real job.
To the young reader aspiring to become an entrepreneur, please stay in school! It will help you in your future endeavors and would be a fallback position if you weren’t born with the stuff in your DNA to one day be labeled (by someone other than yourself) as a true “entrepreneur.”
Entrepreneurs are the “thought leaders” who not only see the world differently, but who also have the courage and tenacity to act upon their visions. In doing so, they empower others. These thought leaders become innovators, disrupters, and job creators. They are pure and simply the reason for the rapid and robust expansion of the global economy.
With this perspective in mind, I believe that my journey and experiences learned along the way affords me much to offer in the way of advice for those looking to be successful in life, whether as business leaders or global changemakers. One primary idea shapes my foundations of achievement and now my advice to those seeking the same. This is the concept of “intellectual humility.” Intellectual humility is the ability to know what you don’t know and, more importantly, the ability to understand that everybody you meet can teach you something that you didn’t know today, even if it is just about that type of person.” When we become better listeners and better observers, we stand a greater chance of tapping into our own potential.
It is for this reason that Vena believes the next important trend in innovation will involve human interaction, face-to-face contact, and collaboration. “All of us have the ability to make the person’s life next to them better,” he says. “The more you pay attention to the human condition, the better off you will be as an innovator, a leader, a motivator, the inspiration for others”.

CHAPTER 1
Understanding Your Inner Entrepreneur (or Lack Thereof)
Whether you’re fantasizing about leaving the daily grind of “employee-dom” or dropping out of school for what you think is the freedom and independence of “business ownership utopia” (we will cover this myth later), you may want to take a moment to first understand your “inner entrepreneur.”
Knowing yourself and understanding the “inner entrepreneur” (or lack of) may be more important to your success as a business owner than your vision and even the business model itself.
True entrepreneurship doesn’t mean that one had a “fear bypass” at birth. Rather, true entrepreneurship lies in one’s ability to never fear whether one can and will (maybe even must) succeed in one’s mission to attain success for one’s vision, even after suffering failures and facing cynics.

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