318: Ideas Worth Stealing From Top Entrepreneurs, with Dorie Clark
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Dorie Clark: Entrepreneurial You
Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. Recognized as a branding expert by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of the new book, Entrepreneurial You* — and her prior books, Reinventing You* and Stand Out*.
Key Points
- Even things that seem solid can change at any moment.
- Anybody, in any career, needs to emphasize flexibility and adaptability.
- 35% of Americans are self-employed, projected to be 40% by 2020.
- Entrepreneurial side projects expand your skills for your main career.
- Side projects often create new career opportunities.
- If something is not being done, ask why is it not being done. Because it’s impossible? Or just hard?
- Check for metrics that you’re heading in the right direction.
- Progress might not always come in the form you’re expecting.
- How do you diversify but do it in a way that doesn’t pull you in a million directions?
Resources Mentioned
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion* by Robert B. Cialdini
- Entrepreneurial You Self-assessment
- Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive* by Dorie Clark
Related Episodes
- How to Stand Out, with Dorie Clark (episode 189)
- How to Be a Non-Conformist, with Adam Grant (episode 238)
- How to Solve a Really Big Problem, with Teresa Chahine (episode 292)
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| 0:00.0 | You've probably seen all this stuff online on starting a business or making money on the internet. |
| 0:05.5 | There's a ton of noise out there. |
| 0:07.5 | And there's also some great business and leadership practices that are emerging from today's entrepreneurs. |
| 0:15.0 | Ideas we should all be paying attention to as leaders. |
| 0:19.7 | On this episode, the ideas leaders should consider stealing from today's top entrepreneurs. |
| 0:25.6 | This is coaching for leaders, episode 318. |
| 0:29.7 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:34.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:41.0 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, |
| 0:47.0 | they're made. And this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will |
| 0:52.0 | empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm so glad you've joined in today because today a conversation one that may not be |
| 1:00.7 | apparent to most leaders which is thinking about how to be more entrepreneurial. |
| 1:06.7 | Now, most of our listening audience are non-entrepreneurs, and yet you've inevitably heard about all of the innovative things |
| 1:16.2 | that a lot of entrepreneurs and people running businesses are doing these |
| 1:19.2 | days and more and more people looking at their careers differently and And even if that's not you, there is so much |
| 1:26.3 | to be learned from what entrepreneurs are doing, |
| 1:29.8 | how to be more entrepreneurial within your organization, and whether you ever take on the mantle of an entrepreneur or not, |
| 1:37.0 | there are so many valuable lessons that all of us can gain from and I find again and again and again in our conversations in the Academy that people who are thinking more entrepreneurial are doing some really innovative things. |
| 1:48.0 | And so today I am really thrilled to be able to welcome an expert in entrepreneurship and someone who has been doing a ton of research |
| 1:56.8 | over the last several years on some of the best lessons from entrepreneurs and we're here today to steal as many of those top |
| 2:04.9 | lessons as we can I'm really glad to welcome back to the show Dory Clark |
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