entrepreneur mindset

  • Is ActionCOACH Right for you? Are you passionate about business and helping others? Had enough of the corporate world and need to do something for yourself? Tired of building someone else's business and want to start building your own? Do [...]

  •   Financial Management According to Jessie Hagen of U.S. Bank, as cited on the SCORE/Counsellors to America’s Small Business website http://www.score.org the main reasons small business fail: 82% – Poor cash flow management skills/poor understanding of cash flow, 79% – [...]

  • It’s finally happened.  The 1st of January has finally polarised society. One half is over the moon with excitement of what a new year may bring.  They’ve got exciting goals, or at least some New Year’s resolutions, and they can’t [...]

  • I love it when people say to me: "but Harry, it's not about the money." Really?!  Do you actually believe that? Now I'm the first to support that money isn't everything. There are a lot of things that are important. [...]

  • South Africa, is truly a country of abundance. We are blessed with beauty all around us. With places, I love like Table Mountain, Kruger National Park, Namaqualand, Vineyards of Franshoek, and the Blyde River Canyon. Did you know that South [...]

  • Navigating ourselves and our businesses in an ever-changing environment with macro-economic forces at play has become a real challenge for many. Yet, for every business that reaches the end of its road that are many more businesses that thrive despite [...]

  • Staff, employees, or team members; sometimes also referred to as aliens (well at least referred to as aliens by me), are always an interesting subject.  They are the easiest and best way to leverage any business but often also come [...]

  • In prepping for this blog, I asked Business Owners in my network what made them proud to be South African Business Owners.    The overwhelming response was – our resilience!  What makes us resilient?   We embrace The Stockdale Paradox. Admiral James [...]

  • A 2021/2022 report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that women displayed 20% less confidence when it came to their ability to start a business vs their male counterparts. What caused this? Perhaps it was the Covid climate that was [...]

  • The number of women entrepreneurs is on the rise. Many of these women are struggling to survive in the business environment given the unique challenges they face. In my experience as a Business Coach, many women-owned businesses are not given the [...]

  • The month of August sees us celebrating Women’s Month and it is in this context that I want to provide some focus on the important role that women play in the business world and society. According to the Global Entrepreneurship [...]

  • Legacy, what does that mean anyway? Why does it matter what people think of you after you are gone? You will be dead; why does it matter?  “It is about the richness of the individual's life, including what that person [...]

  • It's no secret that women have had to fight harder than men to become a legitimate presence in virtually every aspect of business. Thankfully, the gender gap is slowly shrinking on the corporate side, with more female executives in the [...]

  • The past two weeks, in particular, only perhaps equaled by a two-week period after the looting and rioting of last year, I’ve found myself at the center of conversations with negative, depressed, stressed and very emotional people.  With the very [...]

  • Having had the opportunity to explore the concept of legacy, specifically from a business perspective, one of the ever-present themes I’ve come across is this: Legacies are created, designed, developed, nurtured, and consciously worked on over a period of time. [...]

  • There are thousands of business leaders in the working world today, each wanting desperately to create and build a lasting "legacy," but very few are remembered after their last day on the job. This is most often a result of [...]

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