Posts Tagged ‘Home Business’

Entrepreneurship and The New American Dream

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. “

“I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

- Muhammad Ali

Entrepreneurship and The New American Dream

The single greatest change over the past 50 years in workplace attitudes is the slow shift of viewing your job as an opportunity to viewing it as security. Look at the stats over the past five years and see how many jobs were lost in this country. No wonder why 1 out of 6 employees are search for home businesses. We’re capitalists and entrepreneurs because we have the freedom of choice. We expect and demand a “Liaise Fair” attitude from our government when it comes to our business. The Kaufman Foundation concluded from a survey that there’s more respect for entrepreneurs then CEO’s of successful corporation. Distribution of attitudes looked like this:

The question was if you had to choose would you prefer to be?

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Can’t get no Satisfaction?

Monday, October 19th, 2009

“Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.”
-Johnny Unitas

I Can’t Get No Satisfaction (for all you children of the 1960s this isn’t about the Rolling Stones). Americans really want to work, remember the quote from Oscar Wilde ‘The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one’

The truth is that Americans aren’t really looking for help; they’re looking for guidance or leadership to get them moving forward. We’re basically hard working as well as, smart working people who want to provide for themselves. We know there’s a reward with that can do attitude. Whether you work at a job or are running a small business or a fortune 100 corporation there is the motivation to succeed in America through capitalism.

Truths to live by whether you’re have a job or running a business. Better yet, indicators of employee satisfaction/dissatisfaction.

  1. Do I have a job or a career – Motivate me please with respect and feedback about the results of my work along with the rewards.
  2. Am I building a career or reputation in my chosen field?
  3. Do I respect what the company does or in the case of you self-employed individuals, what I do for my customers.
  4. Do I have some control over my role or responsibilities?
  5. Are the decisions being made at my place of work or my decisions in the case of being self employed being made with a level of reliability, consistency and predictability?
  6. Will I still be working here or running this business three years from now?

Thanks for letting me provide you with something to think and ponder about. More to come, so come on back to my blog daily.