Business doesn’t have to be about being the biggest, fastest or strongest. Entrepreneurs don’t have to be short-sighted, aggressive and unfair. “Entrepreneurialism has nothing to do with hardwired personality traits.” This is what Robert Kelsey says in this article in the journal of the Royal Society of Arts. I agree totally. Unfortunately, the popular image …
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Freedom, Money, Time
‘Freedom, Money, Time – and the Key to Creative Success’ is the title of an excellent new free eBook from Mark McGuinness. Download this free ebook here. You can also distribute it to friends, colleagues and contacts. Mark reckons that creative people need three things to be happy: Freedom – to do what you want, …
Ideas in Action – JAB Design
JAB Design, a design consultancy based in Liverpool, is a great example of a creative business using business thinking to make their creative enterprise even more successful. JAB Design features as an ‘Ideas in Action’ case study in the book ‘T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity’. This section of the book …
Strategic Marketing
Strategic Marketing is about aligning the whole business to the changing needs of carefully chosen customers. “Marketing is not only much broader than selling, it is not a specialised activity at all. It encompasses the entire business. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from …