Change: how to ensure change is accepted

If you want people to change here are a few tips:

- Involve them. in understanding the problem, in finding the solution and implementing it.
- Accept their emotions.   It's ok, it's part of the progress of changing.  Sometimes better ideas will come out of trying to understand why you don't like this new project.
- Be creative: Changing doesn't always mean adding more, sometimes it can be doing differently, or doing less.
- Walk the talk: There is nothing like peer pressure, example from management and corporate  incentives that match the expected behaviours.

This is a great text about how to get people to change

Innovation - Where do ideas come from?

We all have this fantasy of the great idea coming up to us, suddenly in our shower or, like Archimedes in his bath.  We often tend to think that ideas come for an Eureka! moment.

What if, ideas actually come from a longer process, that they are born as hunches that slowly grow?  Maybe it would

Steve Johnson, author of the Book "Where great ideas are born", as an interesting point of view on this:

So, keep these incomplete ideas in a notebook you carry around, or on a file on your computer, or a sticky note on your wall.  You never know, what may seem like an unfeasible and unfinished idea today, could be a genius idea when the time is ripe.

You Always Need a Portion of Luck

Luck can be interpreted n many ways, but whichever your definition is, you always need a portion of it when venturing on business. One of the best ways how to describe this as follows:

"In the same way we oversimplify success as being very personal, a direct result of our herculean efforts and intellects, we treat business failure as equally personal. It failed because of us. Because we didn’t work hard enoug

h, didn’t come up with an idea good enough, just weren’t smart enough to make a success of it.

It didn’t. Once you’ve been around people who’ve started a business or two, you realise that’s all just nonsense. Starting a business is more art than science. More guesswork than knowledge. More optimism than rationalism. There is no blueprint. It’s a lot about hard work. It’s a lot about adaptability. It’s a lot about encouraging serendipity, more commonly known as being in the right place, at the right time. It’s a lot about luck. Luck is to business, what foreplay is to sex – while not strictly mandatory it sure makes the ride smoother." - from Venture Beat at "Why Winning Is Not Our Natural State" article.

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18 Success Tips From Richard

I tend to post tips from Sir Richard Branson. The reason isn't other than, as him, I believe an entrepreneur must enjoys her life as much she enjoys doing businesses. For me, mixing pleasure and business is my ultimate combination. Doing business for money results empty, while enjoying doing business it's a living. 

Here are the latest business SUCCESS tips from Richard that are worth to consider:

1. Don't do it if you don't enjoy it.
2. Be visible.
3. Choose your name wisely.
4. You can't run a business without taking risks.
5. The first impression is everything. So it is the second.
6. Perfection is unattainable.
7. The customer is always right, most of the time.
8. Define your brand.
9. Explore uncharted territory.
10. Beware the "us vs. them" environment.
11. Build a corporate comfort zone.
12. Not everyone is suited to be CEO.
13. Seek a second opinion. Seek a third.
14. Cut ties without burning bridges.
15. Pick up the phone.
16. Change shouldn't be feared, but it should be managed.
17. When it comes to making mistakes, bounce back, don’t fall down.
18. Be a leader, not a boss.

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Keeping Your Cool

As orchestra director of your business you will have many tough moments. A harsh discussion with your staff or receiving tough criticism from your board of directors. You will need also to let go people or fire a supplier. Your clients will complain without merit and competition will trash out you and your company in public. But remember that this is business and there are things far important starting with your family and friends. Don't let anything related to business affect you in a way you aren't. In any given moment try to keep your COOL.

Raising Capital

Any entrepreneur will need to ask for money to someone, be personal contacts or institutional. Here are some good tips from Erick M. Jackson on the process to do it and important elements to consider:

1. Structure your rise right.
2. Prepare key documents.
3. Put your network to work.
4. Meet new people.
5. Don't break the law.
6. Start the process now.

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Teamwork A Must

In business like sports success depends on the even quality and effort of the team. You need to develop a collaborative environment within your business. A place where everyone is responsible and accountable for its contribution, but also where they are engaged and aware on the common goal of the company. You need to trust people working with you and expect they will accomplish their part the best they can. 


There isn't best example on teamwork and effective collaboration as the way APPLE works. Here is Steve Jobs talking about it: