Ron Finklestein » entrepreneurship

One Degree Difference

finklestein — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:46:33 +0000

As a professional speaker, I am often asked what topics I speak about. That is easy to answer because I can speak on:

entrepreneurship, small business skills, marketing and most any topic relating to small business skills and small business success.

The common thread tying all my topics together is called The One Degree Difference. We must learn to think differently about our business in order to get different results.

My book Nine Principles for Inspired Action discusses the nine behaviors succussful people implement and there are examples of how people learn to think differently and how this change in thinking leads to different actions.

The One Degree Difference simply stated is that it does not require a massive change to get massive results. It only takes a small change in our thinking, a one degree change, to get massive results.

Change your thinking change your business.

Ron Finklestein

Small Business Speaker
330-990-0788
ron@akris.net

Contact me to see how you can learn more about the One Degree Difference.

Leadership Entrepreneurship

ron — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:34:55 +0000

Is an entrepreneur a leader? How does entrepreneurship differ from leadership? The answer depends on your perspective. In the traditional sense, anyone who starts their own business is an entrepreneur. Not all entrepreneurs are leaders.

A leader can rally the troops to take action. A leader can keep them motivated with a strong vision for the company. The odds of success increase significantly if the entrepreneur is a leader. If not the entrepreneur can thrive if they learn to master the basic skills and behavior of leadership or if they surround themselves with someone who can effective communicate that vision to the staff, the customers and valued business partners.

We cannot be all things to all people but we can surround ourselves with others who can effectively fill the gaps in our own skills sets.

To Your Success,

Ron Finklestein
330-990-0788
ron@akris.net

Small Business Speaker

ron — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:28:44 +0000

As someone who speaks on topics of interest to small business owners, I have found entrepreneurship to be of the greatest interest. An associate once told me that 65% of all small businesses started are one person companies.

This means there is a strong interest in taking control of their financial destiny but many times these new business owners trade one job for the many jobs required of running a small business: sales, marketing, bookkeeper, customer service, etc.

It is hard to be successful as an entrepreneur unless you have the success mindset. We are not taught to be a business owner in school and the business owners I know who have MBAs found that it is very difficult to applly what is learned in a college course designed for Fortune 1000 companies.

Who fills that gap between what was learned in school and how it is applied in the trenches? Someone has to. It can be filled in two ways: ongoing training and personal improvement and working with a coach, mentor or ideally a group of advisors. Working with someone else is where the best small business ideas can be tested before the wrong decision is made.

To Your Success,

Ron Finklestein
330-990-0788
ron@akris.net