TACTICS FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS

Entrepreneurs, Stop The Status Discussions And Go Build Things

Status discussions distract you from your main work as an entrepreneur. Plus, they can disgust people who could be your customers.

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Entrepreneurs are hard-working people charting new waters, building new products, and driving progress.

That’s the ideal picture, but often, it’s a mirage. How often have you heard venerable entrepreneurs talk about status and prestige instead of their products and enterprises?

Here are some examples.

Cluster 1: The Airline Status Obsession

Travelling is a necessity in a sales role. If your company serves an international market, you’ll spend lots of time on planes. With that come lots of air miles and eventually, a frequent flyer status.

If you have a frequent flyer status, do you really need to talk about it? Would you ever talk about your supermarket loyalty card? Probably not. But for some reason, entrepreneurs associate their frequent flyer status with their prestige.