TGIF – Advice For The Entrepreneur (Or Wannabe)

As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment.

Quote of the Week: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison

Humor Break:

Bev: How’s that fancy-Dan entrepreneurial friend of yours doing with his new-fangled creative financial firm?

Al: He’s giving it up.

Bev: Yeah, but he’s said that before.

Al: This time he heard it from a Judge.

Stat of the Week: This week the “Stat” is for those of you who have entrepreneurial blood coursing through your blood stream.  Maybe you are tired of the 9 to 5 experience – and you want a 6:00 AM to Midnight experience operating your own company.  Maybe you just want a little action on the side.  Maybe you are considering being an independent consultant.  Anyway before you branch out, consider the sage advice of 16 people who often give advice to “start-ups” and “add-ons”.  (If nothing else I learned that Apple has a high level position called Chief Evangelist.)

Self-Development Corner: This week from Coursera, the free online university, we begin with a couple of course dedicated to our healthcare readers and friends: Health for All Through Primary Health Care, (May 29, 5 weeks, Johns Hopkins); this course is definitely for everyone – Social Epidemiology (May 31, 7 weeks, University of Minnesota).

And I would like you to pay special attention to a course many of us could benefit from (but hate to admit it): First-Year Composition 2.0, (May 27, 8 weeks, Georgia Tech).

Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.