Communication – Page 2 – An Entrepreneurial Journey

The Mobile Future is Right Before Our Eyes!
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Apple, Apps, Bill Gates, business, Business Growth, Business Technology, Cell Phones, Change, Communication, Connecting, Facebook, iPhone, Mark Zuckerberg, market growth, Mary Meeker, Mobile Technology, Mobile Usage, Pandora, Sharing Information, Social Media, Square, steve jobs, Tablets, Technology, Twitter
Last week, I traveled to Dallas, TX for a guys’ weekend with my son Tony, his close friend Steven, and my brother Mark. While there, we also attended the Bills vs. Cowboys football game. Having grown up in Rochester, NY, I am a Bills fan, which is often difficult to endure. That weekend was no exception. Even after a great start to the season, the Bills lost 44 to 7. Other than that, we had a great time, and the Cowboys’ stadium is off the charts!

You seem to open your eyes more to what is around you when you’re in a new environment, so being a bit more observant, I watched the nonstop mobile usage around me. These observations made me want to share some recent research that has been released. Based on the research and my own thoughts, mobile devices are becoming a powerful force in our lives.

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How Do You Get Great Ideas?
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Board Meeting, business, Business Decisions, Business Growth, Collective Intelligence, Communication, Creating Solutions, Creativity, Entrepreneur, Great Ideas, Group Interaction, Groups, Ideas, Meetings, team building
Many of us out there hold a strong aversion and distaste for meetings. You have heard it before, or possibly even said it yourself: “We do nothing but have meetings around here, so how am I to get any work done?” Why do we have such negative feelings in regards to getting a group of people together to discuss issues and create solutions to move forward?

I believe strongly in the power of the group and think it is vital to bring people together to create the best ideas. If you have read this blog for any amount of time, you have seen me discuss my belief in collective intelligence, an ideal I trust in so much that I even started a mutual fund managed around the philosophy.

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A Lesson in Listening
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Business Growth, Communication, EO, Importance of Listening, Marketing
There are times when you have to make business decisions that are painful. Those decisions are often accompanied by the feeling that your work, effort, worry, and money have all been a waste.

For 4 years now, my partner Rich and I have owned a franchise of 1-800-GOT-JUNK. These franchises have been successful all over North America, and we wanted to bring it to Knoxville. The founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK is a fellow EO member that I met in 2001. For 4 years I watched the business grow and become successful before we bought the rights to the Knoxville market.

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How Important is the WHY in your “Why?”
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Communication, Entrepreneurs Organization, EO, Hiring, Jim Collins, WHO
My entire life there’s always been this ingrained curiosity about the world, people, how things work and especially about business. “Why?” is and always has been commonplace in my vocabulary, asking anyone about anything I came across. My family, business partners and team hammer back…..”WHY! WHY! WHY! Why do you ask why so much”?!

It makes me pause and wonder why it bothers them at times or why they joked about it, because I see it as something so natural that everyone should do it.

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What are your dreams?
Categories: Efficience
Tags: business, Business Growth, Change, Communication, Connecting, Dreams, Employee Retention, employees with value, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs Organization, EO, Goals, Hiring, Improving Turnover, Matthew Kelly, NYSE, Personal Growth, Stock Exchange, team building, Turnover
What an interesting week! Last week, I traveled to New York City to participate in the Entrepreneurs’ Organization Injected Campus event, which brings the regional EO Forums together. We met in lower Manhattan to be close to the New York Stock Exchange.

This year during our event, the NYSE opening bell was rung by InvenSense, a company that makes the motion possible in the Wii and in smartphones. InvenSense was launching their IPO and was going public. I had always wanted to be there in person to see the opening bell, but it also made me think of my own dream of being up there to ring the bell with the IPO launch of my own company. That evening, it felt a little closer as my friends on the Global EO Board got to be on stage and ring the closing bell! WOW! Click here to see the video I took of the opening bell.

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Can we be candid here?
Categories: Efficience
Tags: Business Growth, Communication, India
In my business, I have found that at the top of the list of problem areas resides communication. Working in a global market adds in a variety of cultures making communication something that should not be taken lightly. With the world getting flatter, many of us now have customers, suppliers, partners, or team mates in other countries. For more than 5 years now my company has been working to grow our team in India and working diligently to make our processes better, as we have learned that the majority of our issues arose from communication, or lack thereof.

My US team has worked hard with our India team to create an environment of candor and better communication with every team member. In their culture, it is not easy to create a space where people feel comfortable to communicate in a way that is open, forthright and just plain candid!

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Tag Archives: Communication

The Mobile Future is Right Before Our Eyes!

How Do You Get Great Ideas?

A Lesson in Listening

How Important is the WHY in your “Why?”

What are your dreams?

Can we be candid here?