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Dr. Berglas is a contributing blogger for Business Week Online's Business Entreprenuer blog. His postings to that site have been reprinted here.
Business Week magazine, a McGraw-Hill company, has published 51 issues a year since debuting issue, Sept. 7, 1929, just in time to warn of dangerous overheating in the stock market, which crashed a few weeks later. Today their website carries on that tradition daily, pointing the way for leaders throughout business, government, education -- wherever crucial decisions have to be made. Dr. Berglas is proud to be a part of this fine organizeation.
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Monday, 20 July 2009 17:37 |
Being Entrepreneurial in Hard Times: Thinking out of the box isn't enough
Dr. Steve and Marshall Goldsmith appeared together with interviewer John Byrne, Executive Editor of Business Week, for a discussion on "Staying Entrepreneurial". Two of the world's leading executive coaches, the guys talk about entrepreneurs as "socialized juvenile delinquents" who can make a real difference within their corporations.
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Monday, 15 September 2008 00:00 |
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Posted by: Steven Berglas on September 15, 2008 at Business Week .com
Show me a young Conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains. - Winston Churchill
For some reason, many readers who are interested in my blog contact me “off-line.” One such reader was intrigued with my analysis of the character structure of serial entrepreneurs and called me to raise the following concern:
Do you think the new crop of Web 2.0 entrepreneurs –like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Chris DeWolfe of MySpace, and Google’s founders Brin & Page— will exhibit the same personality traits as established entrepreneurs? It seems to me that the kids are representative of a kinder & gentler generation of business-builders. Do you agree?
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 00:00 |
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Posted by: Steven Berglas on July 24. 2008 at Business Week.com
Since debuting on this blog a number of entrepreneurs I coach have called to say how pleased they were to see me “doing something useful.” While I appreciated the thought, I ultimately focused on what a number of them suggested with regard to future blogs: “Why not just tell your readers what makes a serial entrepreneur tick and be done with it?”
My initial response was, “Explain what makes these guys tick? I’d rather grapple with the Gordian knot or Proteus.”
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 00:00 |
Posted by: Steven Berglas on October 08, 2008 at Business Week .com
I had the pleasure of dining at Charlie Trotter's (the best thing about Chicago) a few Saturdays ago following a management retreat I conducted for a client. My client, a brilliant entrepreneur, founded a successful business that operates at the intersection of the financial services and IT industries. Like a true entrepreneur, despite his meteoric rise he preferred to use that evening to plan for more growth, rather than indulge in Trotter's exquisite dessert wines. As I imbibed, he sat on the edge of his chair and asked: "With 24,000 Lehman employees cut-loose, should we ‘cherry-pick' among them? If so, I want you to help me. You must have some test to weed-out guys that look and sound phenomenal, but are egomaniacs who would destroy our culture, right?"
I've heard "it's better to be lucky than good." Well, that night I was lucky (and I felt good too). Why? Because since I could help my client I would, (a) get more dinners at Charlie Trotter's, and, (b) get to indulge in one of my favorite avocations, screening job candidates for "egomania."
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Monday, 04 August 2008 00:00 |
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Posted by: Steven Berglas on August 04. 2008 at Business Week.com
Last week, John Mack, Chairman & CEO of Morgan Stanley, announced that he was undertaking a strategic move worthy of serial entrepreneur Sam Zell. Using up to $1 billion saved from the 4,800 job cuts authorized this year, Mr. Mack –often called Mack The Knife for his slash-and-burn tactics—plans to hire top-level executives currently unemployed owing to the 75,000 jobs lost in the financial sector this year. As Mack sees it, the turbulence in the market Morgan Stanley occupies is an opportunity to recruit bankers, traders, and risk managers.
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Monday, 07 July 2008 00:00 |
Posted by: Steven Berglas on July 07. 2008 at Business Week.com
Before the name "Daniel Goleman" instantly evoked an association to EQ, he was a brilliant science writer for The New York Times. That factoid is significant to me since it was one of Goleman's articles - "The Psyche Of The Entrepreneur," (February 2, 1986)- that prompted me to study and work with entrepreneurs for the past 20 years. The piece was a tour de force analysis of what makes entrepreneurs "tick," aided in no small part by the fact that before he was a science writer Goleman was a Harvard-trained psychologist who studied with David McClelland.
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