"Don’t ask for the opportunity, be the opportunity."
Jason Feifer
EFR 638: The Future of Entrepreneurship, Creating New Opportunities and Innovation, and How to Build for Tomorrow
Society has changed, technology has changed, the way we work has changed, everything has changed! Change can feel overwhelming or confusing, but not if you know how to change with it.
Allow us to introduce you to the one and only, Jason Feifer, editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, podcast host, author, startup advisor, keynote speaker, and “nonstop optimism machine”. Jason believes that change is inevitable, but thriving is up to you… and he’s here to tell you how.
In this discussion, Chase and Jason talk about the present and future of work, what’s changed in the workforce and entrepreneurship space over the past two years (since covid began), and how to create opportunities and innovation in your life and business.
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Key Highlights
The pandemic has caused many companies to restructure their organization and work flows. If we focused less how much time people are spending working and instead focused more on what they produce, we can start to create more flexibility in how people work together.
Efficiency is necessary, but it can be the death of innovation. Do you know what really killed Kodak? Facebook.
Every company needs someone (or a team) whose job is to come up with new opportunities. The best type of opportunity you can pursue is the opportunity that is available to you that nobody is asking you to do.
How do ensure we’re moving forward in a direction of expansion? Tune in to hear a story from Jason that illustrates his answer.
What is Jason’s billion dollar question he wants entrepreneurs to ask themselves? He dedicated a whole blank page in his new book for this question: What is it for?
“It’s just so valuable for all of us if we can think about the cycle of change we’re in right now as the conscious cycle,” Jason says, “This is the one that you pay attention to, that you take notes on, that you have documented evidence… so that when you get through it… [and] the next time you go through it, you can look back and you can say… it’s gonna work out again.”
Powerful Quotes by Jason Feifer
If everything that you do is judged [on] whether or not it is perfect… you’ll never do a new thing because every new thing is going to be imperfect.
Something that I think confuses people and drives a lot of fear of change is that people feel like the new MUST wholesale replace the old.
I worked my job without knowing what the next job was. You can’t know what it is but I will tell you that if you don’t prepare yourself for it, then you’re never going to get it when the time comes.
Episode resources:
Join the 2023 Ever Forward Mentorship waitlist! Email the word "Mentorship" to chase@everforwardradio.com
Visit his website
Order his book, Build for Tomorrow by Jason Feifer
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