Brain Storm! Business Podcast: Lessons From the Life of Steve MartinIn today's Brain Storm! Business Podcast, we will look at lessons learned from the autobiography of Steve Martin.
I have a love for biographies, either business or celebrity. I don't go after current pop-icons, but older entertainers who have been around the block. Their lives offer lessons anyone can learn from, and I realized last night, that they offer great business lessons as well.
Entertainers are Entrepreneurs too.
If you think about it, they are in the business of promoting themselves. That is what an entrepreneur does as well. We promote our product, service and ourself (if we're smart). Well, Steve Martin's autobiography has some great lessons in patience, persistence and innovation - the same things that make a great business person.
These are 5 lessons you can learn, and in the podcast, I go into details of Martin's life and how we can apply these lessons to our own businesses:
There are NO overnight successes.
Timing is everything.
We start by borrowing, but become successful by ...