tedr:
Growing a Business: Paul Hawken
This a GREAT book every entrepreneur should read. It covers Hawkins business experiences from the ’70s to early ’90s and thus it’s free of Web anomalies like real-time data, eCommerce and exuberant VCs, but still full of modern start-up dilemas, sensibilities, optimism and financial challenges … plenty of financial challenges.
The best piece of advice I’ll share is when Hawkins (founder of Smith & Hawkins catalogs among many others) realizes after spending yet another weekend day resolving an unexpected and unforeseen problem that his job as CEO isn’t to solve problems so he can get back to work, his job is to solve unexpected and unforeseen problems.
Once he embraces that problems are his job not the obstacle to doing his job he was much happier. And I’ve been much since reading that a month ago..
