Comments on: Best business movie of the year: Kinky Boots http://www.troyangrignon.com/2006/09/24/best-business-movie-of-the-year-kinky-boots/ Business • Technology • Society • Environment Sun, 16 May 2010 21:41:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anonymous http://www.troyangrignon.com/2006/09/24/best-business-movie-of-the-year-kinky-boots/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Anonymous Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:12:16 +0000 http://www.troyangrignon.com/2006/09/24/best-business-movie-of-the-year-kinky-boots/#comment-224 Lessons Learned: * Clarity is important in all things--especially your motives for starting and running an enterprise * Employees have years of knowledge--they are in the trenches and may save your ass. Ex. the craftsman who brightly suggested a steel shank! * Although the "best 40 under 40" and similar awards perpetuate the myth of the heroic entrepreneur as the solitary protagonist in a business, there are NO entrepreneur heroes...there is always someone with a vision, but that someone often doesn't have the skills to make the whole thing go. S/he needs a TEAM. There is an opportunity here for an awards program for "Best Entrepreneurial Team of the Year." * Accept change, Do or Die but don't screw people as you are doing it. * Your personal morality and your customers' are two different kettles of fish. So, mind your own business. AND if you do have an issue with how your customer lives, get over it or go do business for another market entirely. * Ask the customer what they want, and get it in their hands (or on their feet). You don't know anything until the customer is truly satisfied with what you've offered. Unless your business is a legislatively protected monopoly (ex. like the bus services between Van and Whistler protected by the Transportation Board). * The show must go on! If you own the business, make it happen when no one shows. Price did by going on the catwalk when no one else showed. Wow! THAT is a real owner/entrepreneur! Lessons Learned:

* Clarity is important in all things–especially your motives for starting and running an enterprise

* Employees have years of knowledge–they are in the trenches and may save your ass. Ex. the craftsman who brightly suggested a steel shank!

* Although the “best 40 under 40″ and similar awards perpetuate the myth of the heroic entrepreneur as the solitary protagonist in a business, there are NO entrepreneur heroes…there is always someone with a vision, but that someone often doesn’t have the skills to make the whole thing go. S/he needs a TEAM. There is an opportunity here for an awards program for “Best Entrepreneurial Team of the Year.”

* Accept change, Do or Die but don’t screw people as you are doing it.

* Your personal morality and your customers’ are two different kettles of fish. So, mind your own business. AND if you do have an issue with how your customer lives, get over it or go do business for another market entirely.

* Ask the customer what they want, and get it in their hands (or on their feet). You don’t know anything until the customer is truly satisfied with what you’ve offered. Unless your business is a legislatively protected monopoly (ex. like the bus services between Van and Whistler protected by the Transportation Board).

* The show must go on! If you own the business, make it happen when no one shows. Price did by going on the catwalk when no one else showed. Wow! THAT is a real owner/entrepreneur!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.troyangrignon.com/2006/09/24/best-business-movie-of-the-year-kinky-boots/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Anonymous Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:30:43 +0000 http://www.troyangrignon.com/2006/09/24/best-business-movie-of-the-year-kinky-boots/#comment-223 I loved this movie. I didnt disect it for it's components as I watched it, but it left me feeling inspired. Now I know why. After reading this I wish I had disected it a little more. Venturing into the unknown is always a challenge. this movie did really tell so many great stories - get to know your customer's can be a drag, but has high heeled rewards. I watched it on a plane, so I'm looking forward to the DVD's Got to love some Brit humor! I loved this movie.
I didnt disect it for it’s components as I watched it, but it left me feeling inspired. Now I know why.
After reading this I wish I had disected it a little more. Venturing into the unknown is always a challenge. this movie did really tell so many great stories – get to know your customer’s can be a drag, but has high heeled rewards.
I watched it on a plane, so I’m looking forward to the DVD’s
Got to love some Brit humor!

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