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Bringing a Networked Perspective to Water --- and musings that matter.
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Here you will find: - Insights on the Emerging Market for Water Intelligence. - Experienced based insights for humble entrepreneurs. Thoughts expressed here are based on my experience. My opinions only.
Kim Patrick Kobza
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Author Archives: Kim Patrick
Why Do You Want To Be An Entrepreneur?
Why? Why in the world would you – give up a paycheck, career, time, energy, friends for an uncertainty – a belief, a hunch, a quest that an idea, a conceptual product, just might succeed – and that you are … Continue reading
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Purpose and Passion – Why Do You Want To Be An Entrepreneur?
Entrepreneurs are motivated by belief and emotion – intensely held and fervently expressed. But intensity alone doesn’t win. Sacrifice alone doesn’t win. It takes more. Belief has to be backed up by reason. Emotion has to be more than … Continue reading
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Healthy Entrepreneurs: The Heart of “The Soft Stuff”
If you want to get the soft stuff right, you have to start with good health. Superior health gives entrepreneurs a meaningful advantage. And by solid health I mean enduring, self-aware commitment to achieving and keeping health in balance. It … Continue reading
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The Soft Stuff ™
A corporate CEO once said to me – “I don’t do the soft stuff”-“I just do the hard stuff.” In other words he was most comfortable performing the financial engineering and the command and control functions. The tools of that … Continue reading
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What Do You (We) Stand For?
Is there a cause? Is there a reason for being? And what is yours? Do you stand for advancing “The Technium”[1] to help humans live better, more enriched lives? Do you stand for building a great, enduring, successful company? Do … Continue reading
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“It Takes a Network” – All of Our Networks Working Together!
For all of us – it takes a network. Networks built on social communication make possible virtually everything that we do. The question is which one – or one(s) and for what purpose? And when we need multiple networks, working … Continue reading
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How Much Do You Really Have to Know?
When you start your company – how much do you really have to know? Good question. Some entrepreneurs err on the side of trying to know everything. Others – don’t know nearly enough. Think about the challenge this way: With … Continue reading
What Is In The Way?
Sometimes we get so focused on execution, that we don’t allocate attention to the obvious big picture questions. We get more focused on the drama than the solution. When you are thinking about how to move forward ask the most … Continue reading
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“Gotta Ask”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to stop and reflect.” Mark Twain. In my experience, these are some of the most important questions entrepreneurs should ask themselves to “stay on the rails”. Repeatedly. And best … Continue reading
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If We Failed – Why?
This question was shared with me by the former head of a multi-national engineering firm. The way that he framed it was this. “Say that we are sitting right here, at this conference table, one year from now – and we … Continue reading
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