Have you ever been in the delicate situation of giving a negative feedback? Have you ever encountered people taking your feedback personally and striving to bring arguments and be defensive? Constructive feedback…yeah yeah… Yesterday’s edition of Business Cocktail, with Mihai Stanescu (Business Coach), was truly enlightening, and among all the things discussed, I want to [...]
During one edition of Business Cocktail, one thing mentioned by our invited entrepreneur, Andrei Rosca, made me reflect more on career path(s). He was talking about how entrepreneurs must leave behind their specialization and get knowledge from more domains in order to be able to succeed. Is this a difficult trade-off or it becomes natural [...]
You probably got used to be advised to have very clear objectives when you go to a conference, to have a clear purpose for networking. Yeah sure, if only we will work all our life in the same field/ company. What most people tend to forget is that we build a personal network of contacts [...]
That’s a lie!!! Perhaps you don’t lie to the others, but you lie to yourself. Here is the truth: You will always have time for what you love to do. Your lack of time does not come from lack of good planning/ time management, it just comes from lack of motivation. You don’t like what [...]
Some time ago I thought it is weird to see in the media topics about women entrepreneurship…I thought there is no difference between men and women when it comes to entrepreneurship and we should not be treated as a “different species”. But then… I entered the entrepreneurship world myself (woman, 23 y.o….also Romanian) and I [...]
Bragging is normal. We all do it. One way or another. Ok, it also depends to a certain extent on the culture (for example, Latins brag more But… The most important thing to analyze is actually ABOUT WHAT do we brag?! Because that thing shows what we consider to be sooo special. That is why I consider [...]
When I was younger I was daydreaming about having a club where everybody listens to music in its headphones…to the same music. Advantages?- No neighborhood noise, nobody outside the party place to complain- When you want to talk to somebody at the party, you can just turn down the volume…no need to scream- You can have different [...]
I had the pleasure some days ago to attend an MBA class on Leadership, held by Stephanie Jones. For the first time, I meet somebody not trying to give answers on this debated topic, but trying to present all the facets of leadership, in its diversity. Leadership exists in many forms and according to different [...]
Usually we go through our university years trying to develop ourselves for the world that comes after inside companies (employed or as entrepreneurs). But what if you actually prepare yourself to be a specialist on students and academia market? I got my Bachelor degree two years ago. And I did not go for Masters. Even so, [...]
I remember one of my first teachers in school was always saying: “You cannot evaluate something, unless you compare it with something else.” And this is so true. When we have several elements to evaluate, we are always more critique with the first (one or two) options. Then for the next ones, we start comparing [...]
I have attended (as participant and speaker) two conferences lately: – Digital Marketing Forum in Bucharest (organized by Evensys) – International Congress of Youth Entrepreneurship in Brussels (organized by JADE) and I have noticed that there are some interesting ways in which networking has changed nowadays, as described below. 1. Speakers do not carry business cards [...]
Working on launching my business, I have hit the milestone of making a final decision over the branding – the essence of everything we do, representing what we stand for in very simple symbols, the logo, the slogan, the way we write/ put everything on the website. It is funny how we thought about so [...]
When you are young, at the beginning of your career, you want to grow. Maybe you plan to become a specialist in something, or you want to become someday a manager, or you want to become a successful entrepreneur like the famous examples from media. And in the same time you have lots of energy [...]
While working on my business launch, I can say that the greatest challenge was to form a great team, with smart, motivated, ambitious people that, most importantly, get along very well. After many trials, I can say I managed to achieve this. So, for whoever is interested how to achieve having a great team of [...]
In the year 201x, somewhere in the University campus: – Students are invited to RSVP on meetup.com if they are going to attend the class- Once the class has started, present students should confirm their physical attendance by check-ins on Foursquare for the place called Room 145, University of…- If the teacher is absent, he can teach [...]
