Although many speculate Kodak’s decline was due to technology, this insightful article provides compelling evidence to the contrary. Citing myopia and Kodak’s inability to adapt to a changing marketplace, it delves into what the former giant could have done differently. For a better look into the whirlwind decline of Kodak and how digital disruption ended […]
Lifting the Second-Generation Curse
This resilient tale articulates Natalie Sexton’s journey to lift the ‘second-generation curse.’ In today’s competitive marketplace, a measly 30% of family-owned businesses survive through the second-generation. Yet, Sexton seeks to defy the odds, and in doing so inspires us all. For more information on her incredible journey, please check out this New York Times article
The Significance of Networking
Although networking can be uncomfortable and awkward for quite a few people, it is a necessary part of business that has the potential to pay off enormously. Time and again we hear, “It’s not what you know. It’s who you know.” While this sort of playing field may seem unfair in regards to capitalism, it […]
Entrepreneurship is Not a Dream. It’s a Reality
As we go through life, we are continuously forced to build ourselves more and more until we are the person we strive to be. While not all of us necessarily transcend or reach the dreams of our adolescence, we still inevitably experience a journey in which we are forced to push our limits, to expand […]
The Internal Struggle of Growth
All too often we see businesses grow and grow only to reach an apex and coast. Then, while these corporate, cumbersome, inflexible conglomerations coast, an independent, agile, and flexible start-up will come along and adapt to the market more efficiently, thus effectively displacing the conglomeration. Truthfully, corporations should never seek to reach an apex and […]