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Entrepreneurs play a key role in any economy, using the skills and initiative necessary to anticipate needs and bringing good new ideas to market.

In this podcast I talk about entrepreneurship and technology with Nadia Hansen

We discuss entrepreneurship and technology 

Nadia is the Chief Information Officer for Clark County in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clark County is an $8 billion public enterprise, which is the nation's 11th largest county providing extensive regional services to more than 2.4 million citizens and more than 45.6 million visitors a year. Nadia's portfolio also includes McCarran International Airport, the nation's largest busiest airport and University Medical Centre, the state's largest public hospital. 

Nadia is responsible for delivering all information technology needs to 10,000 employees across 140 locations. Nadia is directly responsible for the leadership and management of three counties IT operations and programme delivery. She also sits on the regional leadership team with the CEO, CFO and CIO. In her role, Nadia participates in all RFPs across the regions, designing the technology solution components for those engagements and delivering the strategic strategy proposal to the clients. 

Nadia has more than 20 years of experience leading and developing technology functions for large organisations and startups. Nadia serves as an advisory board member for several government tech organisations.Nadia ensures that the IT organisation is reimagining citizen services by leading the way in platforms, cloud supported applications, digitising business services, and data analytics. 

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★★★ Are you someone who is: ★★★

• About to start a business and needs guidance, 
• Already running a business and wants to scale faster, 
• Not satisfied with your current job and want to change your career, 
• Very much satisfied with your professional career but want to stop working for others and gain financial freedom,  
• Already enjoying financial freedom but want to create more impact in your community and in the world. 

If you identify with any of these concerns, I am pleased to invite you to check out these 3 solutions carefully designed to address your desires. These offers are currently in-demand and are producing amazing results:

👉 Business Myth Uncovered: (Group mentorship program for startup founders and small business owners)

👉 Fulfillment Coaching Jet:  (Personalized coaching and mentorship program for professionals and entrepreneurs)

👉 Super Connector Stopover: (Relationship building and personal branding for executives and professionals using a turn-key proprietary technology)

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In this podcast, I talk about leadership with Mike Ryan

Mike has been a board member and CEO for more than 35 years at technology, healthcare & international consulting companies, including a $35M company with 300 employees from a startup at $20B public hospital company (HCA) and a $15M company with 250 employees at healthcare companies part of $18B company.

He is also the winner of 2013 TOP 100 STARTUP EXPERTS TO FOLLOW ON TWITTER, serving as Strategic Advisor, board, and interim leadership roles for 60+ companies, including startup, growth, and venture-backed companies globally.

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• About to start a business and needs guidance, 
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• Not satisfied with your current job and want to change your career, 
• Very much satisfied with your professional career but want to stop working for others and gain financial freedom,  
• Already enjoying financial freedom but want to create more impact in your community and in the world. 

If you identify with any of these concerns, I am pleased to invite you to check out these 3 solutions carefully designed to address your desires. These offers are currently in-demand and are producing amazing results:

👉 Business Myth Uncovered: (Group mentorship program for startup founders and small business owners)

👉 Fulfillment Coaching Jet:  (Personalized coaching and mentorship program for professionals and entrepreneurs)

👉 Super Connector Stopover: (Relationship building and personal branding for executives and professionals using a turn-key proprietary technology)

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Using good motivation and leadership practices to succeed in life.

Bob currently partnered with Dominique Wilkins, a nine-time NBA all-star and player for the Hawks. In addition, Bob also serves as play-by-play announcer for Southeastern Conference football games on FSN South and Atlantic Coast Conference, calling back basketball games for Raycom sports. He's an expert in media television, radio-collared sports, professional sports leadership, team building, and personal growth

In this podcast, I talk about motivation and leadership with Bob Rathbun.

We discuss motivation and leadership.

He's got some great insights into motivation and leadership that I think will challenge some common assumptions we all have.

Bob was an eight-time sportscaster of the Year in Virginia and Georgia. He has nine Emmy Award awards. He's the TV voice of the Atlanta Hawks and a professional motivational speaker. He's also the author of Fast Forward winner. 

He's an expert in media television, radio-collared sports, professional sports leadership, team building, and personal growth. Bob is also the longest-tenured TV playback play man in the franchise's history. 

He has won a variety of significant broadcasting awards, and 10 southeast regional Emmy Awards. In 2012, he earned Georgia sportscaster of the year honors from the national sport sportscasters and sportswriters association. And recently he received the positivity in the broadcasting award in June 2017 from positive athlete Georgia. 

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• About to start a business and needs guidance, 
• Already running a business and wants to scale faster, 
• Not satisfied with your current job and want to change your career, 
• Very much satisfied with your professional career but want to stop working for others and gain financial freedom,  
• Already enjoying financial freedom but want to create more impact in your community and in the world. 

If you identify with any of these concerns, I am pleased to invite you to check out these 3 solutions carefully designed to address your desires. These offers are currently in-demand and are producing amazing results:

👉 Business Myth Uncovered: (Group mentorship program for startup founders and small business owners)

👉 Fulfillment Coaching Jet:  (Personalized coaching and mentorship program for professionals and entrepreneurs)

👉 Super Connector Stopover: (Relationship building and personal branding for executives and professionals using a turn-key proprietary technology)

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In this podcast, I talk about innovation and technology with Zaheer Ali.

Zaheer is a world-renowned innovator and leader who currently works for NASA's SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) as the Manager of Safety and Mission Assurance. SOFIA is an advanced telescope mounted into a modified 747 Boeing Aircraft, which flies to 45,000 ft. to do Infrared Astronomy.

Zaheer is also a celebrated TEDx Speaker and thought leader in management and technology practices. With over $500M in captured contracts, he has worked with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), NASA, DARPA, and other agencies.

Zaheer has been working in Universities Space Research Association (USRA) for the last ten years. Amidst the  COVID-19 pandemic, he led USRA SOFIA back to work in close collaboration with NASA and international partners – making them the first suborbital program to return to operations and deploy internationally.

Zaheer is also the co-founder of the National Centre for Nuclear Security, worked as a principal investigator, and held a short director's position at the laboratory for laser energetics of the University of Rochester. His list of achievements keeps going on as he is also consulted as a micro/nanodevice (MEMS) engineer.

Resources

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaali/ 

★★★ Are you someone who is: ★★★

• About to start a business and needs guidance, 
• Already running a business and wants to scale faster, 
• Not satisfied with your current job and want to change your career, 
• Very much satisfied with your professional career but want to stop working for others and gain financial freedom,  
• Already enjoying financial freedom but want to create more impact in your community and in the world. 

If you identify with any of these concerns, I am pleased to invite you to check out these 3 solutions carefully designed to address your desires. These offers are currently in-demand and are producing amazing results:

👉 Business Myth Uncovered: (Group mentorship program for startup founders and small business owners)

👉 Fulfillment Coaching Jet:  (Personalized coaching and mentorship program for professionals and entrepreneurs)

👉 Super Connector Stopover: (Relationship building and personal branding for executives and professionals using a turn-key proprietary technology)

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Leadership involves influencing others to accomplish a common goal. 

In this podcast, I talk about leadership with Chris Kowalewski.

He's got some great insights into leadership that I think will challenge some common assumptions we all have.

Chris Kowalewski is a 32 year veteran in the food and support services industry.

Currently, he is the Chief Growth Officer at the Compass Group. Those of you who may not have heard of Compass group - it is the 6th largest global employer and was ranked by Fortune in the World’s Most Admired Companies, and Best Employers for Diversity.

And of course, the Compass Group is part of the elite group of Fortune 500 companies.

Compass Group is the leader in food and support services management, with its North American headquarters in Charlotte, NC. Operating in 50 countries, employing over 550,000 people, and serving 10 million meals a day, Compass Group's annual revenue exceeded $18 billion in 2018.

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Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/chris-kowalewski

Website: https://www.compass-group.com/en/index.html 

★★★ Are you someone who is: ★★★

• About to start a business and needs guidance, 
• Already running a business and wants to scale faster, 
• Not satisfied with your current job and want to change your career, 
• Very much satisfied with your professional career but want to stop working for others and gain financial freedom,  
• Already enjoying financial freedom but want to create more impact in your community and in the world. 

If you identify with any of these concerns, I am pleased to invite you to check out these 3 solutions carefully designed to address your desires. These offers are currently in-demand and are producing amazing results:

👉 Business Myth Uncovered: (Group mentorship program for startup founders and small business owners)

👉 Fulfillment Coaching Jet:  (Personalized coaching and mentorship program for professionals and entrepreneurs)

👉 Super Connector Stopover: (Relationship building and personal branding for executives and professionals using a turn-key proprietary technology)

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Communication with your employees is one of the most important things you can do to maintain that motivation. You want to know what's going on in their lives, you want to know what's going on in their career, you want to know what they're doing outside of work, so you can get a sense of how they're spending their time and what they're doing during that time.

When you know your team members' stories, then you can understand what it is that pushes their buttons, what motivates them. You can help them get better at what they do, you can give them the kind of feedback that they need to improve their performance.

You can also understand when someone's down and out because let's face it, people get sick, people get tired, people get bored.

They've been working in the same job for a while, they're not sure if they're getting paid enough or if they're getting paid too much or whatever it is. So keeping communication lines open is very important. Also, it's important to know about your team member's personal life. This will help you understand how you should approach them when things aren't going so well in their personal lives. Maybe something happened with their family or something like that. So knowing how to approach your team members in different situations is key to understanding what's the best way to motivate them during different periods of time.

Here are four top ways to motivate your employees

1. Communicate better and listen to your employees

2. Lead by example and be a role model to your team members

3. Incentivise good results produced by your team members

4. Encourage lessons to be learned from mistakes made by your team members

Remember, teamwork makes the dream work

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Every day there's going to be something new, an employee is going to quit, a client is going to pull their account, your ad account may get affected someday, SEO may not be working, your email list may start bouncing, all these problems are going to show up at your doorstep and you're going to have to fix them.

You're going to need to hire someone with knowledge of your industry and their take on things.  They can see patterns in your business that others miss. They can spot opportunities that others miss. They're going to see red flags in your behavior that others don't see. And they're going to do everything they can to make sure these issues don't grow and become major problems.

Here are 3 important character traits  an entrepreneur needs

1. Flexibility

Most of the time, what you start out doing isn't exactly what you end up doing when you're successful. As you launch your business, you'll see that some of the things you expected to function don't. You'll run into stuff that you weren't expecting to work. You'll observe others in your business doing things that will benefit your company, and you'll imitate them. You'll need to be adaptable.

Even if you are one of the fortunate ones who has perfect initial ideas, the world will alter around you. We know a business owner who started out as a residential realtor. When the housing market crashed, he shifted his focus to property management, which requires similar abilities but is counter-cyclical.

Several times, we've had to alter our own businesses. Polly founded a company in 2002 to assist small businesses in staying compliant with new labor rules. She intended to conduct audits of human resources. Her strategy has a major weakness. The majority of small-business owners do not want to be aware that their company is out of compliance. We had a much broader emphasis when we launched Whitestone Partners. We made every effort to complete the task. However, over time, we've honed our services, focusing on assisting businesses with their migrations from micro to small and small to midsize.

It's crucial to be adaptable. If you want to be an entrepreneur, the only constant in your life will be change. If you don't adapt, your company will be swept away by the wave of change. Persistence is a close second to adaptation.

2.  A strong work ethic

The ability and willingness to work extremely hard is the third required talent. It's challenging to run a tiny firm. You'll be awake for considerably more than eight hours each day. If your week begins on Monday, you will have worked for 40 hours by Thursday, but you will not have slowed down. You'll be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Being a successful entrepreneur necessitates a lot of effort.

Running a small business is difficult, but if you are adaptive, have the will and resources to persevere, and are prepared to put in long hours, you will considerably boost your chances of success. Adaptability, perseverance, and hard effort are the cornerstones to small-business success, but they are three important traits that no maverick should lack.

Work ethic is something that successful entrepreneurs are well-versed in. They'll usually be the first ones to arrive at work and the last ones to leave. If there is unfinished business, they will come into the office on weekends and holidays to finish the task. These are the people who are always thinking about work, even while they are having fun.

3.  Persistence

Inevitably, there will be potholes on the road. You'll lose a lot of business. Good

employees will quit, and some may go to work for competitors. Regulations will be changed by the government, which will normally make things more compl

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The importance of Big Data analytics, data mining, and everything to do with data cannot be understated. 

It enables you to capture more clients, serve more communities and build more profits.

Once you understand the power of data, you can figure out what your customers are thinking and what they're likely to buy.

Here are the four reasons Why big data is important for business

• Understand market circumstances.

Big data analysis aids in the comprehension of current market situations.

 For example, by studying client purchase behaviors, a company can determine which products are the most popular and manufacture new products in line with this trend.

 As a result, it will be able to outperform its competition.

• Improve your understanding of your customers.

With the use of big data analysis, a company can have a deeper understanding of its customers. 

It can anticipate what its customers want and deliver them better service as well as better products. 

Also, because big data solutions can automatically detect unfavorable remarks on social media, firms may easily reduce customer complaints. As a result, you will be able to act quickly.

• Cost Savings.

 Implementing big data technologies may be costly at first, but it will save you a lot of money in the long run. 

Because big data technologies are real-time systems, they relieve IT workers of some of their responsibilities. As a result, you can put these resources to good use elsewhere. 

Furthermore, big data technologies make storing vast volumes of data much easier, but more significantly, the data you save will be reliable, as big data tools have greatly reduced the chance of inaccurate data.

• Maintain control of your internet reputation.

Control your online reputation with sentiment analysis using big data techniques. 

As a result, you can learn more about who is saying what about your business. If you want to keep track of and improve your company's online visibility, big data tools are a must-have.

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Jena Domingue is a highly accomplished senior executive with more than 20 years of success in the wine, eCommerce, digital marketing, luxury goods, and staffing industries. Throughout her career.

She had held leadership positions with wine direct, Jan Marini, skin research, and other luxury goods companies, and was a San Francisco Bay Area native. Also with over 20 years of experience and sales, Jena leads the wine direct sales team wine direct is a Napa Valley company offering world-class eCommerce and fulfillment solutions to wineries and in her current role as VP of global sales.

She's responsible for developing national and international sales teams. Jena also manages that integrated payment program with over $1 billion in revenue. Jena has won multiple national awards for sales performance in the skincare and aesthetics industries. If this wouldn't be enough, Jena also served as VP on the woman for wine centre board of directors for two consecutive years.

Her key areas of expertise include fulfilment and ecommerce sales, B2B technology, relationship management, digital strategy, negotiation, and sales, team management with a passion for wine, especially sparkling wine, then she brings best practices to direct to consumer sales, then loves sports and was a professional cheerleader for Oakland Raiders.

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Every year, around 472 million entrepreneurs and 305 million enterprises are formed.

1.3 million of those startups are in the technology sector. Regardless of the industry, the majority of them fail.

The continuous rise in entrepreneurship is a sign that economies are thriving.

However, as the number of new businesses grows, so do old, often incorrect notions about startups.

Myths can be found in every aspect of startup culture, from lifestyle and invention to fame and money.

Getting a new company off the ground is difficult enough. Staying grounded when navigating the hurdles of establishing a new business can be as simple as staying honest and differentiating fact from fantasy.

Here are the 3startup myths uncovered

Many people believe that a startup is a new company that has come up with a novel business idea, intends to make an immediate effect, and eventually takes over the market. 

This is a dangerous misconception. Many people believe this myth since startup success is often modeled after unicorn celebrities like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Elon Musk, Jack Ma, and others.

This, however, misses the key reason for their success, which is due to their business strategy, product positioning, and customer experience, rather than the novelty of their concept.

Facebook was far from the first social media platform. It was a rip-off of Myspace and houseSYSTEM. The first search engine was not Google. Overture invented search monetization, not Google.

Farmville was not created by Zynga; it was a copy of Farmtown. Farmtown was, in turn, a rip-off of HappyFarm, a Chinese game. Microsoft Windows was not the first graphical user interface operating system. 

Despite being technically inferior to its competitors, it was able to win the market share battle between IBM and Apple. This was simply because Microsoft, more than IBM or Apple, knew what customers really wanted. 

Success has nothing to do with your business idea.

Ideas are important, but so are planning, talent, leadership, communication, and a host of other factors.

The “if you create it, they will come” debate is the second frequent startup mystery. It's called controversy because it's a myth that has slowed me down as a young entrepreneur, and the numbers back it up. 

According to research, 21.5 percent of startups fail in their first year, 30% in their second year, 50% in their fifth year, and 70% in their tenth year. 

Many people have spent years building startups, investing their time, energy, and life savings in the hopes that their sponsors will notice their efforts and come after them, but this has never happened. Most people are aware of Yahoo's, Google's, and Facebook's enormous success.

After all, these are simply free websites that attract a large number of people. This offers entrepreneurs a false feeling of security, leading them to believe that inventing technology and putting it out there is all they need to do to attract people.

They are oblivious to the fact that Google floundered for years before becoming well-known. Facebook was hardly known at Harvard University when it was founded, and it took several pivots before it gained traction.

The point is that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to success. Ninety percent of the work that goes into starting a business is hidden from view. It is not discussed in the media.

Only years later, when you read the founders' memoirs and autobiographies, do you learn about the actual path they had to t

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