The Surprising Benefits (and Pitfalls) of Being a "Jack of All Trades" Están muy en boga, pero las oficinas con espacios abiertos son “cianuro” para la creatividad: Marketing Directo. The 25 Tools Every Entrepreneur Should Know About. Most entrepreneurs have a lot of responsibilities on their plate from day one of operation.
Everything from hiring employees, managing teams, marketing the brand and dealing with finances can fall under a founder's responsibilities. Juggling so many tasks can be daunting and lead to a lot of stress. If you’re an entrepreneur and you want to become more efficient, productive and successful, take a look at the list of tools below. 1. Buffer Buffer is a great platform and app to find and schedule content on all social media platforms. 2. Asana is a free project-management tool that allows teams to communicate without email, in one central location. Related: The 5 Tools for Entrepreneurs on the Go 3. Most people already know about this tool, but Chromebooks and ability to convert and edit Microsoft Office documents make Google Drive (and accompanying Docs and Sheets) a great way to collaborate and share documents with your clients, freelancers or employees. 4. 5. 6.
How Jack Ma's 'Crazy' Management Style Built a Technology Empire. East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
"-Rudyard Kipling More than 100 years ago, Rudyard Kipling wrote those words, before the world had shrunk back into a new Pangaea, reconnected by fiber-optic lines, global-supply chain networks and global brands. Alibaba and its kinetic leader Jack Ma have blended the best of Western and Chinese technologies, culture and management to create the world’s largest ecommerce company and perhaps soon to be biggest and most diversified global technology enterprise. The company’s Sept. 19 IPO raised more than $20 billion and gave Alibaba a market cap of $240 billion. It also made Jack Ma, already the richest man in China, one of the most wealthy men in the world with a net worth of more than $18 billion. Alibaba is not just an ecommerce company. So how did a former English teacher from Hangzhou, known as “Crazy Ma” because of his unorthodox management philosophy, build one of the most valuable companies in the world in just 15 years? Motivate Your Employees in 3 Steps.
One of the most difficult components of being an effective manager is not only learning to keep your employees organized and on task, but to truly know how to motivate employees as well.
Unfortunately, not every employee is naturally willing to go the extra mile in their everyday efforts, and many times this is because they don’t feel a sense of ownership in their work. However, employees who do take ownership of their work and who feel as though their work truly matters are much more likely to be motivated and feel engaged while on the job.
If you can increase the level of engagement that your employees have with their everyday tasks within the workplace, you can start seeing the overall productivity of your entire department increase almost instantly. While the reasons to motivate employees are clear to most managers, finding ways to actually get team members engaged in their work is often far more difficult. 1. 2. This can make withdrawn employees feel even more withdrawn. You Might Be an Entrepreneur If You Meet These 3 Conditions. I’m a recent convert to the lean startup movement.
But after four years of operating a small startup incubator at a private liberal arts college I've learned a lot about creating business models that work and who might become a successful entrepreneur. It’s not about having access to capital or area of study. Rather, it’s about having the right skills, the right process and the right heart. Related: Can the Academic Entrepreneur Save the Ivory Tower? 1. Marketing innovation. Start Your Own Business.