Growing Your Own Business

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Growing Your Own Business Olympia London April
4th 2008
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• What makes an entrepreneur unique?

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entrepreneurs are

• Difficult people
• Extremely driven, competitive obsessive
• Influential, with contagious opinions
• Inherently unstable
• Completely non-compliant

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DISC profile (psychometric)
Drive Influence Stability Compliance Entrepreneur
s exhibit high drive, high influence, low
stability and low compliance
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Chicken or the egg ?
Good school pupils dont exhibit the high
Dominance and Influence required of
entrepreneurs.
fact entrepreneurs are often dislexic
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entrepreneurs are

• usually bad at
• HR, organisational issues,
• paperwork repetition

• usually good at
• PR, sales, marketing,
• leadership finance

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so you want to start your own business?
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whats important?

• STAY FOCUSED
• The most important factor in a successful company
  is leadership
• Dont expect too much for too little
• Dont sweat the small stuff

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recruitment
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getting it right

• Know your strengths, respect your weaknesses 
  hire accordingly
• Work hard, play hard enjoy the ride
• A good CV doesnt guarantee a perfect fit
• Never be afraid to hire better than yourself

• Put your best man forward
• Fair treatment reaps rich rewards
• Never hire friends or family

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ups downs
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making it work

• Losers slump, winners strengthen
• Go for gongs
• Business is a marathon not a sprint
• Dont flog a dead horse

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