WeWork, Your New Morning Routine, and Hiring Entrepreneurs
Community Workspace, WeWork, Valued at $20 Billion, Has A Few Tricks Up Their Sleeve
WeWork, a company started in New York in 2010 is now across the United States in 56 cities and in 18 countries around the globe.
WeWork’s success is derived from the fact that so many workers these days don’t need much real estate for their laptop and their cup of coffee, which is all they need to take care of business. WeWork members can rent out a designated desk they can call their own and smaller companies, that don’t want to to fork over large overhead fees, can sign multi-year leases. Now in Beijing, Mumbai, and Haifa, Israel, WeWork has experienced explosive growth. Their fast road to success can be attritubed to their open-door policy, as they choose to provide work situations for small contractors all the way to running an entire office buildings for the likes of IBM in New York, Airbnb in Berlin, and Amazon’s offices in Boston.
Miguel McKelvey and Adam Neumann are the masterminds behind this idea, but this isn’t their first go at trying to launch the next big thing. Neumann was involved in collapsible high heels for women and baby clothes with built-in knee pads. But, to no avail.
Read more here to discover other ways that WeWork is disrupting the way traditional companies found the road to success.
9 Odd Ways to Start Your Own Energized Morning Routine
What happens when you hear the beep-beep-beep of your alarm clock in the morning? Do you race out of bed, head for hot coffee, or smack the snooze button?
Depending on how you begin your morning sets the tone for the rest of your day. If your workday is feeling anything less than lackluster, supercharging your morning routines with these oddball ideas may make all the difference. Try these entrepreneurial ideas and see how these suggestions invigorate your productivity and your attitude, both at home and in the office.
Write yourself a note
Read a list of your favorite quotes to amp up your motivation
Eat some protein right away
Keep emails that you have to write super, super short
Tidy up your workspace
Find something to be grateful for
Turn off the wireless and really dig into your to-do list
Make a list to unload your subconscious
Create your own ritual
Hopefully, these strategies will re-invigorate your morning and have you jumping out of bed as soon as the alarm clock blares.
Hiring Entrepreneurial Leaders And...Do You Need Really Need to Hire One?
These days, students at the Harvard Business School, even if they have no intention of ever trying their hand at a start-up, take offense if someone doesn’t categorize them as “entrepreneurial.”
Timothy Butler, Senior Fellow and Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School, understands where these kids are coming from. “Entrepreneurs have become the new heroes of the business world,” he writes in Harvard Business Review. Who wouldn’t want to be in this blockbuster category of modern day valor? Companies these days, whether they are large or small in size, are expected to be nimble, innovative, and agile. Generally speaking, entrepreneurs are just that: nimble, innovative, and agile. For companies to continue to prove their worth through their flexibility and creativity, they often are eager to hire entrepreneurs. As companies continue to grow and seek out promising talent, finding true entrepreneurs from the job pool candidates becomes a crucial element. But, is hiring an entrepreneur always the right call?
Butler conducts research exploring what makes entrepreneurs so special in the first place. Is it their personality, work ethic or skills? Or, is it simply stereotype casting them into this category? Butler found entrepreneurs have three characteristics that distinguish them from others. They can thrive in uncertainty, they have a passionate desire to author and own projects, and they each possess a unique skill at persuasion.
As a professional at the helm of an organization, before jumping right into the decision to hire an entrepreneur, consider if you really need one. Entrepreneurs won’t solve every ill you face. If your organization is craving more creativity, you may want to hire a creative, specific to exactly what you need. Entrepreneurs are useful to include if there is a contained project, but for overall “re-vamping” of an organization, entrepreneurs may not add the value you’re looking for. Inter-departmental power struggles may wreck the growth you were going for in the first place.
Butler explores other entrepreneur myths and shares the truth in this article. Whether you are a student or a professional, you may be surprised by what Butler’s research uncovers.