New Lessons from a Familiar Face: Clifton Taulbert on the Entrepreneurial Mindset Project Podcast

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I'm excited to share a very special new episode of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Project! Join us as we sit down with Clifton Taulbert, the Pulitzer-nominated author and successful entrepreneur whose incredible journey from the Mississippi Delta during legal segregation to his entrepreneurial success will inspire and motivate you.

In this episode, Clifton shares even more valuable insights and lessons that he learned from his Uncle Cleve Morman, who played a critical role in his transformation. This conversation will take you on a journey of reflection and growth, encouraging you to embrace an entrepreneurial mindset that can transform your own life.

Many of you already know Clifton's inspiring story from reading Who Owns the Ice House? Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur. Still, we invite you to listen to this podcast and hear Clifton's story in his own words. Join us for this engaging conversation, and discover how to apply Clifton's lessons to your own journey of personal and professional growth.


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NISOD International Conference on Teaching & Leadership Excellence

NISOD's annual conference is the definitive gathering of community and technical college educators passionate about teaching and learning. Over the years, the event has provided faculty, administrators, and staff with the resources, ideas, and solutions that drive excellence in all areas of community and technical college campuses.

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July 2023 Online Entrepreneurial Mindset Facilitator Training

Our Entrepreneurial Mindset Facilitator Training inspires participants to think differently about their own mindset while turning their classrooms and organizations into spaces where problems are solved and innovation is fostered. The training is an engaging mix of live presentations, open discussions, video case studies, small group activities, coaching and experiential exercises. Live sessions will run for two hours on Mondays throughout the month of July.

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Cultivating Entrepreneurial Mindsets: In Classrooms, Organizations, and Communities

The world has changed in ways that now require everyone to think like an entrepreneur. After all, entrepreneurs are resilient and resourceful, creative and critical thinkers who possess the 21st-century skills the world now demands. What is an entrepreneurial mindset? Why is it important? And how can we cultivate it in ourselves and others?

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From Corporate Manager to Entrepreneur: How to Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset for Success

Join ELI founder Gary Schoeniger for a webinar with special guest Dr. Jennifer Hall, Ph.D., co-author of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile (EMP). In this session, Gary and Jen will discuss her journey to creating the EMP and its value as a psychometric evaluation tool to help individuals understand and enhance their entrepreneurial mindset. They will also explore the importance of an entrepreneurial mindset in the corporate world, the differences between corporate managers and entrepreneurs, and how tools like the EMP and ELI’s programs can foster more entrepreneurial behavior.

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Ditching the Easy Fix at Victor Valley College

If you’re always implementing an easy fix, you’re probably looking at all your problems as technical issues rather than complex, adaptive ones. But it can be hard to find the motivation. Not to mention the time to peel back the layers of those big, intractable issues and devise solutions.

Here’s a pep talk in the form of an example from Victor Valley College in Victorville, California, where McKenzie Tarango is the Dean of Instruction, Public Safety & Industrial Technology. She inherited a tricky challenge involving fiscal accountability in a program with hundreds of instructors and multiple classes. Some of these classes were so complex their schedules weren’t even written out.

Tarango chose it for her very first project under a new entrepreneurial mindset opportunity from her boss, Victor Valley College Superintendent, and President Dan Walden.

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"Who Owns the Ice House?" Is Available in Multiple Formats!

Learn the eight life lessons of Uncle Cleve, Clifton Taulbert, and Gary Schoeniger in the format that is best for you! "Much more than a book on entrepreneurship. It is a book about how the mindset and actions of the good & reliable stands out from the average. It is a series of stories that reflect the good old values of how one carries oneself in life...This one's a classic."

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