Tag Archives: Entrepeneurship
Entrepreneur Qualities and Characteristics: Focus
Focus is the opposite of blurred, and in my life blurred is never good, especially for entrepreneurs. The loss of focus will always lead to tumble weed existence, back and forth with no progress. Simply put focus for any entrepreneur is a result of three things; finding clarity, removing clutter and building energy.
Bruce Wade is [...]
Entrepreneur Qualities and Characteristics: Passion
When we speak of passion all a guy will think of is hot steamy….. well you know. Ok! Focus: stop that movie in your head, here we are talking about the passion for life; the energy that gets us up in the morning with anticipation of a serendipitous adventure ahead. Passion for an entrepreneur is [...]
Do you want to be an Entrepreneur?
An Ideate reader asked the question “I want to start my own business, but am anxious about leaving my job. What do I have to do to be an entrepreneur?” There are many employees with aspirations to be a successful entrepreneur but afraid to take the first step. I would say 3R’s apply here: Research, [...]
Durban’s Sardine Run is a lesson in Entrepreneurship
Durban’s Sardine Run is called ‘the greatest shoal on earth’. One journalist calls it ‘total madness’, I thought it was a lesson in entrepreneurship.
Kim’s the founding partner of Trojan Horse, a company that creatively accesses people, places and spaces and is the holding company for MyCube4Change, a change and transformation tool. View more articles by [...]
Entrepreneur Qualities and Characteristics: Humility
Humility is not a synonym for doormat. It is a character that is possessed by very few, especially in an age where personal marketing and self perception are key marketing techniques used by many entrepreneurs.
Bruce Wade is a survivor of the corporate and NGO world, author, speaker, business owner and entrepreneur, Bruce now runs the [...]
Entrepreneur Qualities and Characteristics: Patience
Patience, long suffering, endurance of pain and discomfort – all words that describe one of the hardest characters of successful entrepreneurs. I always thought that only doctors needed patients to survive in business, I soon came to realise that this was just some sick joke. Ok, enough with the humour.
Bruce Wade is a survivor of [...]
Entrepreneur Qualities and Characteristics: Authenticity
I came across this word many years ago when developing a mission statement for an organisation. It sounded right and we went for it but it was only later that I went back and look at what it meant to be authentic and it began to change my life.
Bruce Wade is a [...]
Entrepreneur Qualities and Characteristics: Values and Principles
Continuing on our theme from the Sphere of Mankind, let’s take a look at the outer skin of the sphere. This depicts our personal boundaries in our lives. Much the same as a river bank will guide its water, so our values and principles give us direction.
Bruce Wade is a survivor of the corporate and [...]
Entrepreneur Qualities and Characteristics: The Sphere of Mankind
Over the last 10 years of study in human nature and behaviour I have developed a model that depicts how we are composed, behave and interact. The Sphere of Mankind models life at the basics of principles, purpose and functions. To begin this journey of understanding what makes up an Entrepreneur we must first make [...]
What is an Intrepreneur?
Our blog is all about entrepreneurship and part of being an entrepreneur is having an entrepreneur skill. Now, an intrepreneur (also intrapreneur) is a person who possesses such skill but is working within a company or organisation.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because [...]
