By Fatmanur Erdogan, Hürriyet Daily News Welcome to this week’s installment of the “Neophyte Entrepreneur” series, where we deal with the fears and obstacles that hold corporate professionals back from their entrepreneurial dreams. Today we discuss the fear of failure, and how to keep it under control so it doesn’t stop your dream in its tracks. When you first picture life as an entrepreneur, everything looks rosy. You imagine you’ll have more freedom to choose your own direction. You’ll get to be more creative. You’ll be able to make things happen quickly, without having to cut through bureaucratic red tape. […]
Separating From Your Corporate ID
By Fatmanur Erdogan, Hürriyet Daily News Welcome to this week’s installment of the “Neophyte Entrepreneur” series, where we deal with the fears and obstacles that hold corporate professionals back from their entrepreneurial dreams. Today we discuss the fear of foregoing your corporate identity, and how to keep it from stopping your dream in its tracks. Sometimes, when you sit in your office and imagine life as an entrepreneur, it looks so rosy, so relaxed and free. You get to be your own boss, you have more control over your time, and your work brings more personal satisfaction to your life. […]
The Fears That Grip Us: A Series
By Fatmanur Erdogan, Hürriyet Daily News In corporate life, we know that at the end of the month, we’ll get a paycheck. Sales might be up, or they might be down, but we know the paycheck is on its way. Bills will get paid, vacations will get taken. There’s a nice security and predictability to it. The corporate life also brings prestige and social recognition. Our families are proud, and our friends are impressed. But many of us hear a small voice at the back of our heads, and it never quite leaves us alone. It beckons us towards another […]
Even Picasso Had To Work For It
By Fatmanur Erdogan, Hürriyet Daily News The world’s most brilliant, talented people see patterns others don’t. When Picasso saw a face, for example, he didn’t see an oval, he saw a triangle, and when he painted what he saw, people were shocked. Usually people like this can’t explain to us how they see things the way they do. The images just come to them too quickly, too intuitively, for them to explain what’s happening. But give them a brush, and they paint a masterpiece. Fortunately, the Picassos of the world don’t have a monopoly on talent. We’re all talented in […]
Sürekli Gelişim İçin Bir Öneri
Fatmanur Erdogan, yenibiris.com Eskiden lise mezuniyeti iş kapılarını açardı. Günümüzde lisans dereceniz olmadan iş kapıları açılmıyor. Yakın bir gelecekte, yüksek lisans minimum bariyer haline gelecek, bunu da herhalde doktora dereceleri izler bu gidişle… Türkiye’de sürekli eğitim son 7-8 yılda popülerlik kazandı. Bunun en önemli sebeplerinden biri artık tek bir konu hakkında aldığımız eğitim ile işimizde uzmanlaşmanın neredeyse imkansız hale gelmesi. 1980’li yıllarda Bilgisayar Mühendisliği okuyanların diplomalarının, hızla gelişen teknolojik yapıdan dolayı hiçbir anlam ifade etmemesi konuya iyi bir örnek sanırım… Uzmanlık sahibi olmak artık çok farklı alanlarda bilgi sahibi olmamızı şart koşuyor. Pazarlama yada iletişim alanında uzmanlaşmak isteyenlerin, internet teknolojilerinden […]
Make Room For Entrepreneurs
By Fatmanur Erdogan, Hürriyet Daily News When we start our careers in the corporate world, we are trained to be specialists. We become defined as marketing people, or operations people, or finance people. As we advance in our careers, we become managers, and we are expected to become more generalist, to see the “bigger picture”. Still, we tend to manage our specialty areas. If we were marketing people, we become marketing managers. If we were operations people, we become operations managers. We’re supposed to know a bit about the other parts of the business, but we’re not really required to […]