Excerpt from a podcast in which Curtis Jenkins describes his career transition from software developer to project manager and entrepreneur. He explains his goal of helping small businesses adopt corporate-style strategy and project-management processes to turn visions into reality, and notes his personal brand pillars: persistence, temperament, and enabling other entrepreneurs' success.
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So think about this from success to significance. And I'm trying to be more significant. If I am able to help small businesses, which employ roughly 99% of the workforce in the world, then I'm going to make an impact. And so as I myself going through learning how to build a business by working in corporate and helping big businesses with growing, I learned some of the secrets of what they do, how they develop strategies, how they develop plans and execute on those plans. And then becoming myself a project manager from a software developer, I got to see how things became from a vision to being real. So I took all those elements and decided, hey, I can also do this and help small businesses do this. With these processes, if you structure them right, they can become successful and make their visions a reality. So that's what I've decided and that's what I've learned about myself first and then learned that I can help others. As it relates to branding, I want to brand myself as being the person that can do that because I've had the experience. I think I have a great temperament and attitude and that's all I need. That and some persistence. And if I can transfer that to other entrepreneurs, I think I can help other entrepreneurs be successful. It.
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