Entrepreneurial Girl Power. The women behind some of America’s fastest-growing private companies

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Entrepreneurial Girl Power. The women behind some of America’s fastest-growing private companies

December 6, 2007

It’s December. Time to take a good, clear look at the year we’re ending. Time to celebrate our successes. Time to be honest with ourselves about our failures. And, time to revisit our career plans to check in and evaluate our progress toward reaching our personal business goals.

If you’d like assistance in evaluating your plan (or help creating one for the new year), please check out my book, Your Career, Your Way! And if you’re ready to look to the New Year ahead to identify your potential and set your growth goals, you may find inspiration and a practical pathway to success through advice from women who have successfully reached their goals.

To this end, I introduce you to the third installment in my “Secrets of Success” blog series where you’ll meet some incredible women entrepreneurs with some great advice. Happy reading!

Part 3: Entrepreneurial Girl Power

I must say that I was surprised by what I learned in this article. I knew that the number of women-owned businesses has been growing at twice the rate of male-owned businesses for the past few decades. Yet appears that while women run a lot of businesses, few are growing them beyond the $1 million mark.

For the past few years, the Center for Women’s Business Research in Washington D.C. has been conducting interviews with thousands of women entrepreneurs who run million- and billion-dollar companies to help identify a practical pathway for growth through advice from women who have blazed their way to success.

In this article published recently in Inc.com, women entrepreneurs behind some of America’s fastest-growing private companies open up about what it takes to succeed in industries once dominated by men. You’ll find advice about: Playing hard ball; finding your managerial style; setting boundaries; and believing in yourself.

Please take a look to find pearls of wisdom in the online article entitled Entrepreneurial Girl Power.

Lisa Quast

Link: http://www.inc.com/inc5000/articles/20071101/entrepreneurial-girl-power.html