How to grow your business3 Success Tips to Entrepreneurship

Prof. Dr. Johan LambrechtResearch Centre for Entrepreneurship, Odisee and

KU Leuven (Campus Brussels)johan.lambrecht@kuleuven.be

JCI The Heart of Europe, Think Bigger, 14 November 2015

3 COMMANDMENTS

1. Be different in order to be great (1)

VALUE CREATION = OBJECTIVE

MISSION AS MEANING

1. Be different in order to be great (2)

1. Be different in order to be great (3)

1. Be different in order to be great (4)

1. Be different in order to be great (5)• Strategy ≠ efficiency

2. Keep your ego < EBITDA (1)

2. Keep your ego < EBITDA (2)

Success blinds: Dealing with success is almost as difficult as dealing with failures, because it is tempting to think that it is all thanks to you. Success and failures are both a combination of own work and external influences

3. Learn from mistakes

Entrepreneurship = a process of falling and rising