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Business Lie
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because we all have to find our inner entrepreneurs now. The old working world is gone. You can't
hand over the reins for your career to your boss. That is not an option anymore. Job tenures are
becoming shorter and shorter. You have to run your own career, so whether you work for yourself or
for an employer, you're still in charge.
You have to run your career like a business. How you get paid is a clerical detail. You have to have
the same eye on the horizon that every ship's captain does.
It's a lie that not everyone can run his or her own business. Your business might be an independent
concern, or your business might be your career. You could call it "Joe's Career" or "Sanjeev's
Adventures in Silicon Valley." It doesn't matter what you call it. It's a business, and it's the biggest
investment of time, energy, money and brain cells that you'll ever make.
The problems you'll solve are exactly the same problems every entrepreneur grapples with. What
can I do to make money in this business? Who needs what I have to sell? That question begs the
related question, What exactly DO I have to sell?
Entrepreneurs develop products and services that people and organizations need. If your business is
your career, then your big question is "What kind of Business Pain do I solve for my employers?" You
have to know the answer to that question.

2. Maybe you solve the pain that results when a small business doesn't know where its dollars and
cents are coming from or where they're going. Maybe you solve the

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find good people to fill its job openings.
Forget about your Skills. That is an old dogma and it's no good these days. Everyone claims the same
six or seven Skills: Negotiation Skills, Communication Skills, and so on. They mean nothing. Who can
say what you mean when you claim Excellent Negotiation Skills?