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Great Art

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At TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) 2011, U2′s Bono made an offhand, almost throwaway comment that stopped me in my tracks. He said something like this: ‘The difference between good, maybe even very good art and great art is HUGE.‘ Entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and artpreneurs would do well to keep this in mind. Steve Jobs was [...]

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Check Check Check

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My Dad, the late Professor OJ Firestone, and I tried to determine which three things were the most important skills for an entrepreneur to master: – SALES SALES SALES (moi) – CHECK CHECK CHECK (my Dad). As I have grown older, I have come to realize they are equally critical: without sales, all organizations will [...]

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Show a Little Humility

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I was thinking the other day about how fiendishly complex the ecology of this planet is. It reminded me again of why it is important for humans to be a bit humble in the face of many unknowns. Just when we think experts have a thing figured out, new evidence appears that upsets accepted wisdom. [...]

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Entrepreneur’s Venn Diagram

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What does it take to create a successful, large-scale entrepreneurial organization? Can you stock it exclusively with rebels who bring a great deal of creative energy to it? What if, instead, you have top-down military style leadership? People who are real doers. Will that work? Or how about having a lot of order takers on [...]

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Show Some Adaptability

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The unofficial motto of the US Marine Corps is “show some adaptability”. You see the enemy has an uncanny knack of changing strategy when the battle actually begins—they don’t just sit at their last reported position waiting for Marines to come kill them. Same thing in entrepreneurship—when you come into contact with the markets, everything [...]

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