
10 powerful entrepreneurial skills and characteristics needed to drive growth
- E144
- 1:03:48
- April 28th 2021
Mark Herschberg is a fractional CTO for various companies including Averon. He is the author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. He studied at MIT and started the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, dubbed MIT’s “career success accelerator,” where he teaches annually.
In this episode, Mark shares his insights and perspectives on the 10 powerful entrepreneurial skills and characteristics needed to drive business growth. Insights he shares include:
- Do lessons learned from ballroom dancing mirror Mark's thinking behind the book -The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You
- The time that Mark realized that he just had to teach people entrepreneurial skills and characteristics that weren't being taught in any formal way at the time
- Why the career toolkit isn't just for people who are interested in changing roles or careers or even students
- Why organizations should have their people invest in developing their entrepreneurial skills and characteristics
- How culture and leadership of a business impact the development of people's entrepreneurial skills and characteristics
- What is unique about the perspective Mark provides us with
- Why Mark divided his book into 4 sections - Career, Leadership and Management, and Interpersonal Dynamics?
- Why are these areas are important to an executive or anyone aspiring to scale their business
- Why start with a career plan and what it looks like?
- The 10 powerful entrepreneurial skills and characteristics needed to drive growth
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