The Entrepreneurial Career: Taking Risks and Putting Your Plan into Action Course

The Entrepreneurial Career: Taking Risks and Putting Your Plan into Action

Gregory Waldorf
Stanford

Course Description

Lectures

  1. Working with Great People Lecture favorites

    Lecture 1 - Working with Great People

    Waldorf underlines the importance of collaborating with great people; people with qualities similar to those of good teachers or bosses. Once the right set of people is found, the company can function better on its own, he says.

  2. Taking Smart Risks While Not Following the Safe Path Lecture favorites

    Lecture 2 - Taking Smart Risks While Not Following the Safe Path

    Waldorf believes it is important to be self directed and follow one's passion. Assessing risk, having success in past endeavors, and finding good people can mitigate the effect of following the path less traveled.

  3. Facing the Unexpected with Adaptability Lecture favorites

    Lecture 3 - Facing the Unexpected with Adaptability

    Waldorf believes that in an entrepreneurial career, nothing plays out as expected. Being flexible and willing to adapt to new things is the key to success.

  4. Passion: The Driving Force Behind an Entrepreneurial Career Lecture favorites

    Lecture 4 - Passion: The Driving Force Behind an Entrepreneurial Career

    It takes time to find the right career. You should not work on something you are not passionate about, says Waldorf. Instead, he emphasizes that people should work on a cause that they really care about.

  5. Do Not Wait: Put your Plan into Action Now Lecture favorites

    Lecture 5 - Do Not Wait: Put your Plan into Action Now

    Waldorf believes it is important to grab opportunities as they come instead of waiting for the right moment. It is not an easy path, he notes. For this reason, he says an entrepreneurial career is not for everyone.

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