Chip Chick
It takes a lot of passion, which I have for my job and have always had everywhere I’ve been before now.
That passion is compounded when I can help bring a good product that customers want, with great service and support, to market and make it successful for us as well as for our channel partners.
What tools do you recommend for other women who would like to be entrepreneurs?
Find mentors. Find men and women whom you admire and take parts of each of them that resonate with who you want to be. Further, the lessons from diverse and inclusive mentors are unique gifts.
Seek the ways to solve challenges that are well outside your own journey. Look at others who overcame obstacles that are about more than just careers and success. Lessons are everywhere.
Absorb them all. And apply that dynamic learning to everything you do. If you have the passion to start your own business, by all means, you should.
However, working for other people – lots of other people – shows you the invaluable lesson about what kind of leader you want to be as well as the kind of leader you do not want to be.
From that, you can then build your own playbook for success with the experience to back it up.
It will also help you understand how to get people around you who will both support you and challenge you in constructive ways, which will drive you to greater success than you’d have on your own.
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