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You Can’t Be an Entrepreneur Forever

By Paul Adams, an EO Seattle member and President of Sound Financial Group During my 16 years of helping professionals and entrepreneurs plan for the future, I have come up with three assumptions that prevent most entrepreneurs from building a robust, personal balance sheet as they build their businesses. They are as follows: My business is the

March 20, 2015

Embrace the Chaos

Reghard Goussard, an EO Cape Town member and Founder of We Are Bob As entrepreneurs, we are no strangers to change and working within chaotic business environments. Let’s face it— we are always pushing the business envelope in order to succeed on a bigger scale. But as I’ve recently discovered, there is an unfortunate caveat

March 19, 2015

Three Things Great Leaders Gain from Failure

By Marwa Hijazi, an Overdrive contributor Sometimes you have to fail in order to win. While this may seem counterproductive, mistakes can actually serve as life-changing experiences. Many of the most effective people in management positions got to where they are today through a process of trial and error. Great leaders aren't born knowing how

March 18, 2015

The High Cost of Bankruptcy: Your Mental Health

By Vladimir Gendelman, an EO Detroit member and CEO of Company Folders, Inc. When a company faces bankruptcy, the owner actually faces several types of loss. There’s the obvious monetary cost, yes, but there’s another cost that can be much more devastating and last long after they recover financially: their emotional well-being. As Rishi Khanna

March 17, 2015

Pruning Your Client Base

By Mark Borge, an EO Fort Worth member and principal of Best Facility Services I remember our mindset when we launched Best Facility Services, a bootstrapped venture rich with naïve enthusiasm and low on cash flow— we had none. Any building was fair game for our janitorial services startup. Persistence, and a few properties brought

March 16, 2015

The Mother of All Disruptions

By Silka Gonzalez, an EO South Florida member and the President and CEO of Enterprise Risk Management, Inc. I have a secret to share: I find the concept of disruption, disruptive ideas and trying to be the disruptor (and not the disrupted) extremely fascinating. For as long as I can remember, I’ve thought of “disruption” as

March 13, 2015