The Entrepreneur's Edge: Tapping Into Your Inner Entrepreneur
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James A. Vena
James Vena is an innovative and strategic thinker who has influenced key decision-makers globally in business development and revenue growth strategies. For more than thirty years, James has built a resume that encompasses a wide range of industries and expertise in sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, merger arbitrage, technology and executive management. He has successfully developed innovative, high growth businesses and restructured companies that immediately demonstrated accelerated sales and profit growth. His 30 year career has been marked by success across many countries and industries. This track record has established James’s credentials as both a seasoned internationally astute executive and a disruptive innovator with a quick and fearless mind to seize opportunities along with the ability to articulate the mission needed to achieve specific goals. Mr. Vena’s career started as a China trader of commodities in the early 1980’s for a large US firm. After 5 years, he founded his own trading company at 26 and over the next 20 years developed that company into an internationally recognized brand with offices in 24 locations in some 15 countries. After retiring as CEO and Founder of his global trading company to take a 5-year sabbatical in order to care for his cancer stricken wife and help raise the couple’s young children, the always energetic James un-retired and re-entered the world of international business. However, this time focusing on his past experiences, leadership skills and entrepreneurial mind-set to help develop and grow small businesses and early stage ventures. James’s entrepreneurial mind-set and dynamic personality combined with high energy, passion and purposeful manner, makes him an effective inspirational and motivational communicator. James has been mentoring entrepreneurs, lecturing students and publicly speaking to corporate leaders on the importance of cultural awareness, social responsibility, entrepreneurship, benevolent capitalism, organizational ethics and his brand of ‘intellectual humility’ in the workplace.
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The Entrepreneur's Edge - James A. Vena
The Entrepreneur’s Edge
Tapping Into Your Inner Entrepreneur
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Understanding Your Inner Entrepreneur (or Lack Thereof)
2. Entrepreneurs: Born or Made?
3. Entrepreneurship and the power of Intellectual Humility
4. The Myth of Business Ownership Utopia
5. Critics vs Cynics—Friend or Foe?
6. Contenders vs Pretenders—Talk Is Cheap, Always in Supply, Never in Demand!
7. Innovate to Raise Hell, Articulate to Raise Capital, Communicate to Raise Revenue
8. Entrepreneurship and Leadership Go Hand in Hand
9. Leadership, Business Success, and the Power of Optimism
10. My Closing Argument
More About the Author
Introduction
These days, the word entrepreneur
has become the most overused word in social media. The self-descriptive title entrepreneur
is used too often, mostly without much merit or credibility. I think it’s fair to say that people should not call themselves entrepreneurs unless someone else already has affixed the label to them.
Let’s be honest, in way too many cases, the word entrepreneur
has been a label used by the unemployed who have been out of work and now are seeking a new job or transitioning into a new career, and aspiring entrepreneur
is often used by underachievers and those looking for an excuse to avoid college or a real job.
To the young reader aspiring to become an entrepreneur, please stay in school! It will help you in your future endeavors and would be a fallback