by Ron Hequet | Nov 7, 2017 | Business Development, Career Development, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Professional Career, Self-Achievement, Small Business
Failure should be viewed as a step to achievement. Just before I started my first company, my father used to tell me, “If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not doing anything.” Over the years, I took my mistakes and failures personally – as some sort of deficiency,...
by Ron Hequet | Jun 8, 2016 | Business and Career Development, Career Development, Employment, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Professional Career, Self-Achievement
A commitment to achievement is neither popular nor quick, but it is imperative to pursuing and achieving excellence. — Ron Hequet Even as a teenager, I was driven towards excellence. When I was 16, I had a summer job working for the city public works department....
by Ron Hequet | Jun 1, 2016 | Business and Career Development, Career Development, Personal Development, Professional Career
By their very nature, ideas contrary to established thoughts and practices go beyond the ordinary or expected. They tend to encourage freethinking and produce fresher and more original points of view. But they also seem to defy conventional wisdom and spark suspicion...
by Ron Hequet | May 4, 2016 | Career Development, Employment, Job, Performance Improvement, Personal Development, Professional Career, Self-Achievement
No one can predict the future, but you can influence it. — Ron Hequet What if I developed a plan to drive the performance of an $8M company up by 4+ points, gaining an additional $320K of profit? Can you translate the value of that service into dollars per hour?...
by Ron Hequet | Apr 27, 2016 | Business and Career Development, Career Development, Employment, Job, Networking, Personal Development
It’s typical to think that entrepreneurs are the only ones who own their own business. But in reality, everyone is really in business for themselves in one way or another, even when you are someone else’s employee. — Ron Hequet Not long ago, I sat at breakfast...
by Ron Hequet | Apr 13, 2016 | Business and Career Development, Business Planning, Career Development, Personal Development, Professional Career
Recently, I returned from a meeting a client wanted me to attend as part of my initial analysis of the company. To be truthful, it was a real yawner. Even while writing about it on the return flight, I found it difficult to garner anything positive from it (and I...
