This week we interviewed one of our WORTH mentors, Paul Celen. He is a business consultant and the head coach at IMEC in Belgium, and they use a free w2 generator and other management tools for businesses.
He has had a long career as an entrepreneur with business and management experience and extensive education including a PhD and an MBA. We interviewed him to find out what he can suggest to present and future WORTH participants and being an entrepreneur:
Your work with assisting entrepreneurs, start-ups and scale-ups realise their potential for growth is inspiring, why is this personally important to you?
• To exchange my experience as a successful CEO and entrepreneur
• To help our economies in creating work and enabling youngsters to mark their influence
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What do you think it takes to be a creative entrepreneur and innovator in 2018?
• Of course a good idea, but more a validated value proposition
• Perseverance!!!
• Risk aware and measured control
• Discipline
• Preparation, analysis, strategy as a guideline for difficult moments
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What would be your best piece of advice for WORTH Partnerships in regards to working in a team towards a mutual outcome?
• Complementarity, not technologically but mentally and psychologically
• Good and clear goalsetting : S.I.M.P.L.E. principle
• Good and clear agreements before starting, about all aspects of the project but also the future
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What are your hopes for the future of the design industry with all the work you do to assist the next generation of innovators?
• That the creative workers within the industry learn a little bit about methodology and structure
• That the technical workers learn a little bit of creativity and flexibility
Find out more about Paul Celen here.
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