Management consultant, business coach, business blogger, and author of the practical and insightful book Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, Pamela Slim, shares secrets of transitioning from the corporate world to owning your own business. With humor and flair, she describes how to capitalize on your experience to find entrepreneurial opportunities, find the money to make the dream work, and how to make the successful leap into self employment.
Pamela Slim is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.
The show airs live on Tuesday, April 28, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Management consultant, business coach, business blogger, and author of the practical and insightful book Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, Pamela Slim, shares secrets of transitioning from the corporate world to owning your own business. You will Learn:
* Why so many corporate employees are dissatisfied with their current jobs
* What holds people back from transitioning from employee to entrepreneur
* How to plan your escape successfully from the corporate world
* How to become a successful entrepreneur with your new found freedom
Pamela Slim (photo left) is a coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business. She has been self-employed for 12 years and has enjoyed every bit of it.
Her book, Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur will be released on April 30, 2009.
Pamela's journey as an entrepreneur began in 1996, when she quit her job as manager of training and development at Barclay's Global Investors, a $300 billiom investment management firm in San Francisco. She enjoyed her work very much, but was looking for something new, exciting and challenging for the next phase of her career. After about four months in the market with no interesting job leads, she called up her friend and former manager to see if she had any project work. As fate would have it, she needed an outside contractor to work on developing the global management development curriculum for Hewlett Packard.
As soon as Pam started working for herself, she knew that something was RIGHT! Having her own business was totally liberating and intoxicating. She named her company Ganas (a Spanish word that means the intense desire to do something, inner motivation, exuberance, drive) since that was what she felt every day she went to work, and was how she wanted her clients to feel as a result of working with her.
Pam even went through a phase of self-employment evangelism, encouraging everyone she knew, or didn't know, to work for themselves, until she learned that not only was it unrealistic since some people like working as an employee, it was downright obnoxious. So although she has toned it down over the years, Pamela's zeal for entrepreneurship and her love of working for herself has never waned.
My book review of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur by Pamela Slim.
Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
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Let's talk with management consultant, business coach, business blogger, and author of the practical and insightful book Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, Pamela Slim, as she shares secrets of transitioning from the corporate world to owning your own business. With humor and flair, she describes how to capitalize on your experience to find entrepreneurial opportunities, find the money to make the dream work, and how to make the successful leap into self employment on Blog Business Success Radio.
