Success Takes More Than Showing Up
90% of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
This is oft repeated as an entrepreneur mantra. And, yes – you need to show up, but you also need to show up with something.
We all know them:
The gung-ho board member of a nonprofit, who – if he actually does show up – comes late and unprepared, albeit still gung ho! (And, never actually seems to do any of those great things he talks about.)
The excited new entrepreneur who feverishly works the room at seemingly every event in town…forces you to take her biz card (for the 12th time)…yet never seems to have any business.
The CEO of a start-up who schedules lots and lots of VC meetings…yet, never seems to get any funding (but, man, his Powerpoint is a thing of beauty.)
Woody Allen doesn’t just point the camera at someone and say, “Hey, let’s see what happens!” He does a lot of work before showing up, on little things like scripts and production schedules.
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