starting, growing, and running a business

Starting, Growing, and Running a Business

Entrepreneurship

• Is the pursuit of opportunities with disregard for assets currently controlled.

• Improvise• Create creatively • Barriers to entry • Resources available

Reasons

• Freedom• Purpose• Combine work, art,

leisure• Aspirations• Ambitions• Meaning• Accomplishment• Jobs & Callings

Necessity

• Industrial paternalism• Multiple serial careers• Fragmentation of work• AI and robots• Machines may soon

make workers obsolete

Skill Sets• MBA ASAP• Management• Leadership• Marketing• Start ups • Organization• Accounting• Finance• Business Planning• Strategy• Economics• Communication• Negotiation• Law• Technology

Orchestration

• Proportional Response• Integration• Improvisation• Collaboration• Application of skills,

knowledge and experience

• Flow

Disciplines

Management & Leadership

• My book• Available on Amazon

MarketingEssentials and Practice

MarketingStrategy and Focus

Marketing and Advertising

Start ups

• Gurus• Best Practices• Steve Blank• Kaufman Foundation

Accounting

• My book• Available on Amazon

Financial Statements and ReportingThe End Product of Accounting

The Value of TimeArbitrage and the Value of Time

Plans and Planning

Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable. Winston Churchill

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Inventory: Buffer of SufferOperations and Supply Chain Management

Risk Management

Strategic Thinking

Strategic Planning

Managing Strategic Momentum

History of Economic Thought

Famous Economists and Their Idea Chronology

EconomicsMathematical Structure of the

Science

Business Gurus

• Theory• Practice

Ideas

• Creativity• Futurism• Skate to where the puck

is going to be

Thank You

John Cousinsjjcousins@gmail.com