Struggling Entrepreneur

 

 How Small-Business-Thinking may prevent growth for Entrepreneurs [19:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we deliver an interview with ‘DAVE,’ who is a retired worker (after having spent 30 years in a multinational firm in Corporate America). For the past nine years, DAVE has been working for several Entrepreneur firms in the local area, and so he has made the adjustment from Corporate employee to Small Business employee.

He discusses his perspectives of the concern in Small Business America with Entrepreneurs that the growth and road to success are stagnant — and possibly stifled by the problems created by the same owner Entrepreneur in having and executing what is commonly referred to (negatively) as “Small Business Thinking.”

The latter phrase comes from the saying that engulfed the Small Business Community in the last 15 years or so that descrbed the lack of growth of an Entrepreneurial firm by the short-sided or narrow-minded thinking by the owner (with emphasis on the word “small” that indicates stagnation):

“Small Businessmen will always be Small Businessmen because they think — and act — as Small Businessmen.”

Is it ego? Or is it fear? Or is it a lack of understanding how to manage the single or few employees in order to unleash the synergism of productivity, talent and commitment that can lead to financial success and growth of the business?

Or could it be a combination of all of the above?

Listen to DAVE in this audio episode to get a summary of real-life situations from his viewpoint as he  experiencd these concerns in nearly a decade of working for Small Business owners and local Entrepreneurs.

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