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1. Think
Like an
Entrepreneur
Deb Nystrom, REVELN Consulting
Women’s Leadership Conference June 21, 2014
American Business Women’s Association, MAIA
Chapter
Be Anti-Fragile
Regardless of
Where You Work

2. 1. Fail Small, Learn Big

3. 1,000 to 10,000 Mistakes
Our greatest
weakness lies in
giving up.
The most certain
way to succeed is
always to try just
one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison around the time he invented the phonograph by
Library & Archives Canada

4. Connect
one of
the 5 C’s
What have you learned from
dealing with failure
successfully?
Deb at Entre-Slam, Ann Arbor – Feb. 2013

5. Fail Small,
Learn Big
Struggle
=> Strength

6. Fail Small, Learn Big

7. 2. Reinvent
Continuously,
Use an Internal
& External Mindset

8. Reinvent
Continuously
Internal & External
Mindset

9. Veronika Scott
The Empowerment Plan

11. Reinvent
Continuously
5 Cs:
Connect
Clarify
Commit
Collaborate
Change
From The Empowerment Plan website,

12. 3. Antifragile
“I Embrace
Randomness
& the VUCA”
Volatile Uncertain Complex
Ambiguous

13. Photos: Sponge, by rob.knight Flickr cc
Antifragile
Beyond
Resilience

14. Anti-Fragile
“Some things benefit
from shocks; they thrive
and grow when exposed
to volatility, randomness,
disorder, and stressors
and love adventure, risk,
and uncertainty.
...Yet, there is no word
for the exact opposite of
fragile.
Let us call it antifragile.”
Antifragile: Things that Gain from
Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
See REVELN.com TOOLS for a resources on
Anti-Fragile by N. N. Taleb

15. « I will adapt. »
« Many change projects fail, and the most commonly cited reason is neglect of the human dimensions of
change.
This neglect often centres around a lack of insight into why people are unhappy
with organisational change, a poor appreciation of the process of change,
and a limited knowledge of the tools and techniques that are available to help. »

16. “If about everything top-down
fragilizes and blocks antifragility
and growth,
everything bottom-up
thrives under the right amount of
stress and disorder.”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

17. “Anything
fragile hates
volatility...”

18. “The antifragile
loves randomness
and uncertainty,
which also means,
crucially, a love of
errors, a certain
class of errors.”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

19. 4. Multi-Networks

20. Multi-Network

21. Your Online Presence is:
•Everything you say
•Everything you don’t say
•Your actions or inaction
•What others have to say about you
Source: Leslie McGraw and Deb Nystrom, Your One Big Life, Women of Color Task Force Conference

22. 5. Entrepreneurs
Create
The Future

23. “Entrepreneurs
….believe in a yet-to-be-
made future [to be]
shaped by human
action; and they realize
…they need not expend
energies trying
to predict it.”
~ Assoc.Professor
Saras Saravathy

24. Entrepreneurs
and Stories
“After nourishment,
shelter and
companionship,
stories are the thing
we need most
in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

25. “But while my inner
voice was clearly
telling me I was at
my core an
entrepreneur, it's
inconvenient to
decide at twenty-
three that you can't
really work for other
people.”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have
to Cry, Go Outside: And Other
Things Your Mother Never Told
You
Deb’s photo of Veronika Scott, CEO of the Detroit based Empowerment Plan

26. “Youngsters want to
change world. Elders
want to enjoy their
works.
The entrepreneur
sells anything
needed by both to
win their desires.”
~ Toba Beta,
Master of Stupidity

27. The Five C’s
• Connect
• Clarify
• Commit
• Collaborate
• Change

28. What
challenged
you?
What
inspired
you?
What
surprised
you?
Take-Aways

29. What are
your “Hopenings” to
be Entrepreneurial
& Antifragile?
References from today by June 25th,
REVELN.com Tools page

30. Struggle
= Strength
Don’t rob
yourself (or
them) of the
struggle
More at REVELN.com
See the blog post
Think Like an Entrepreneur: Be
Anti-Fragile Regardless of
Where You Work