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How to Get George Bush or the CEO of Google on the Phone
The below article, titled “Fail Better” and written by Adam Gottesfeld, explores how I teach Princeton students to connect with luminary-level business mentors and celebrities of various types. I’ve edited it to be shorter and clearer in a few places.
THE MYTH OF BEING DIFFERENT
By Mike Schultz One is the loneliest number. - Three Dog Night I got a bad grade on my final paper in Entrepreneurship class in graduate school. The professor said, "The business you're proposing to launch...it's not different. Other people do it. While the plan seems well-thought-out, due to the simple truth that this business has been largely done before, and there doesn't seem to be anything truly unique about it, I wouldn't advise launching the business." (So long, stellar GPA...) Being different and unique seems to be highly regarded by folks that think about, write about, and teach business.

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Creating Your Vision
As a youngster I often pretended I was the teacher and my friends were students in my class. When my friends didn't want to play I just used my dolls and stuffed animals. In later years I would daydream in class about how I could make the topic easier to understand or the class more fun than the teacher up front. I didn’t know it then but I was creating a vision.
Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship
This is a guest post by Scott Shane as a follow up to his entrepreneurship test. He is the A. Malachi Mixon Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of seven books, the latest of which is The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By. Many entrepreneurs believe a bunch of myths about entrepreneurship, so here are ten of the most common and the realities that bust them:

THE MYTH OF BEING DIFFERENT
By Mike Schultz One is the loneliest number. - Three Dog Night I got a bad grade on my final paper in Entrepreneurship class in graduate school. The professor said, "The business you're proposing to launch...it's not different. Other people do it. While the plan seems well-thought-out, due to the simple truth that this business has been largely done before, and there doesn't seem to be anything truly unique about it, I wouldn't advise launching the business." (So long, stellar GPA...) Being different and unique seems to be highly regarded by folks that think about, write about, and teach business.

Is Your Sales Team a Winner or on the Way Out?
Think your sales team is in good shape because your customers rank them either good or very good? Think again. Nearly 80 percent of all supplier deserters rate their previous supplier as "good" to "very good," so the outlook for anything less than world-class excellence is not only disappointing but potentially career threatening. A 15-year study on world-class sales by The HR Chally Group determined that only 21 of 7,300 sales forces evaluated by 80,000 customer decision-makers were categorized as “world-class” by their customers. Benchmarking research within these same 17 "world-class" sales organizations, found that they all shared at least six of the following eight best practices: see article

Class – The Elusive Quality in Today’s Society
The four basic elements of class are how you look, how you behave, what you say and how you say it! What you do is the substance of class and the way you do it is the style of class.

The Secrets of "Serious Entrepreneurship"
As the times change, more and more individuals are seeking entrepreneurship than ever before. The need for financial security is steadily increasing day by day. But it is those that have that feeling of serious entrepreneurship deep inside that are leading the pack today.
4 Ls of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur Devesh Dwivedi talks about the the letter L in the word 'entrepreneurship'... Love, Listen, Learn, and Leverage are the Ls of entrepreneurship. Read until the end as there are two surprise Ls as well.

Entrepreneurship Is Very Closely Associated With Your Risk Taking Abilities
Entrepreneurship is a vital quality which makes any person a successful entrepreneur. In other words, the act of being an entrepreneur is called entrepreneurship. However, if we try to understand entrepreneurship in management terms, it is an activity of undertaking risks of a business, innovations, and other business activities.

When First Class Flights Make Sense!
Traveling in first class flights may not sound all logical especially when cheaper premium class seats get you to the same place in same time, however for selected few flying first class is more than just high life. It is their need. Find out why.
Middle Class Is Failing
The middle class concept is failing millions of people because it is based on myths and formulas that worked for our parents but will no longer prove successful today. President Obama suggested, "the middle class is at a make or break point." What he should be telling you is that it no longer works. The middle class has been failing its members for decades, this is not a new thing.
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