Girls and Cash Making: What’s Your Enterprise Mannequin?

“A enterprise mannequin is a top level view of how an organization plans to generate income.”

What do girls around the globe assume is crucial part to their private enterprise mannequin?

Final 12 months, I interviewed 53 completed girls for my analysis paper “Good Girls: How Do They Make Cash?” launched on 8 March 2022. In celebration of Worldwide Girls’s Day 2022, I assumed I’d share some examples of how girls in numerous international locations and cultures take into consideration enterprise fashions and the way this has contributed to their enterprise success.

Some girls take into consideration their private enterprise mannequin as a mindset for approaching work in a strategic manner:

Change into a Recognized Model

“Once I take into consideration my private enterprise mannequin, I consider the significance of branding your self and ensuring to be clear about each what you are able to do and what you’re recognized for. I put all of my effort and time into doing one of the best I can, and I focus laborious on understanding what I must know and who I must know with the intention to progress. I’m selective with my time and I say no to quite a lot of issues.” — Jessica Chan, Investor Options Lead, JLL, Hong Kong, SAR

Have a Guiding Precept

“My private enterprise mannequin is constructed round a mindset. I take a look at myself as an income-earning asset! I’m within the prime interval of my profession and my tenet for years has been to extend my revenue by 10% to fifteen% yearly. Whether or not I’m in a efficiency appraisal for an present job or a brand new job, I look to barter that proportion enhance in my wage.” — Joelle Pang, Common Supervisor, FastJobs Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Be the Go-To Particular person

“My private enterprise mannequin is constructed round my need to be ’finest in school.’ I attempt to be a extremely credible supply of knowledge and I maintain myself to an exacting ethical commonplace. In my function, I facilitate introductions between senior individuals, resembling chief funding officers and institutional fund managers. I’m the go-to individual for purchasers, for traders, and for anybody in our ecosystem trying to benchmark their funding course of or meet potential companions, all of which requires a excessive stage of non-public and enterprise discretion. If any of those stakeholders are requested ‘Who do I discuss to?’ They’ll say, ‘I discuss to Marsha Larned.’” — Marsha Larned, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Institutional Investor, Hong Kong, SAR

Others consider their private enterprise mannequin as a deliberate manner of working with the intention to obtain monetary success, resembling arising with frameworks and platforms, or collaborating with others:

Use Frameworks and Platforms

“My private enterprise mannequin is aligned with a consultancy enterprise in that I promote my time. As a coach specializing in enterprise psychology, I counsel entrepreneurs and founders on their journeys. From the beginning I noticed that with the intention to create worth I needed to assume in platforms and work with collaborators that will generate progress. For instance, I work with Novo Nordisk Basis as a part of their accelerator program. They go in and make investments with a number of start-ups and I am going in and coach the founders of seven to 10 start-ups. Transferring ahead I’d like to do extra analysis and give you frameworks and platforms that others might use.” — Cecilie Willer, Founder Coach, Immediately.io, Copenhagen, Denmark

Collaborate

“I at all times look to collaborate: My complete profession has been primarily based on recognizing and sustaining collaboration alternatives and ensuring there may be worth for each side. I put money into collaboration not simply within the undertaking itself. This requires laborious work, and for any undertaking I work on, I put collectively a stakeholder map. I checklist all the related stakeholders in my ecosystem, then I establish potential win/win engagements, after which I attempt to construct relationships accordingly. Collaborating lets you ship extra effectively by counting on different individuals’s sources and experience.” — Dona Haj, Head of EMEA Ventures and Tech Ecosystem, MathWorks, London

For a lot of different girls, a private enterprise mannequin is extra of a holistic strategy to money-making that features her private philosophy round components resembling life-style, well being, and happiness:

Way of life

“In arising with my private philosophy round cash, I began with an finish in thoughts. I requested myself this query ‘What sort of life-style do I wish to have?’ This concerned reflecting deeply on what sorts of experiences I needed, what number of journeys per 12 months, what sort of home and automotive I’d like, and the way do I wish to spend my time. As soon as I had put a quantity subsequent to every part I needed to have, I labored backwards to get to my cash aim and I fairly rapidly realized it wasn’t such an astronomical determine. I like biking and mountain climbing and neither are notably costly sports activities! Having a transparent understanding of my cash aim provides me the peace of thoughts to dwell the approach to life I would like.” — Aleksandra Efimova, CEO, FLX® Stretch Coaching and Russian Pointe, Palm Seaside, Florida

Well being

“I don’t have a enterprise mannequin per se, at the very least within the conventional sense of getting exterior purchasers, income, and worth propositions. I’ve a far easier life mannequin. After a lot analysis, I’ve found that there are three issues that make me (and most of us) glad: good well being, deep relationships, and significant work. I’ve ensured I’ve good bodily and psychological well being. I’ve developed just a few deep friendships. And I’ve realized that ‘significant’ for me means engaged on ‘laborious issues’ in my line of labor. I like engaged on issues that nobody else has succeeded at.” — Hansi Mehrotra, CFA, Founder and Monetary Wellness Coach, The Cash Hans, Mumbai

Happiness

“It’s essential to have a ‘happiness mannequin’ layered on prime of 1’s ‘enterprise mannequin’ and work out methods to maximize happiness in addition to profession objectives. What motivates me is mental and emotional engagement versus the largest paycheck or payoff. I’d prefer to assume this can be a good strategy to strategy life.” — Judy Blumstock, Founder and CEO, Diamond Therapeutics, Toronto

Private enterprise fashions are private! How we develop our mindsets, our methods, and our philosophies round work and cash making is exclusive. And as we evolve, our private enterprise fashions evolve with us.

For extra on this subject, learn the total report “Good Girls: How Do They Make Cash?” by Barbara Stewart, CFA.

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