ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd
This lesson is an episode of NPR's How I Built This.
Listen to the episodeWhat you'll get
Janice Bryant Howroyd tells Guy Raz how a stint as a temporary secretary in 1970s Los Angeles showed her how many young workers were stuck in the same spot, and how she launched the staffing agency ACT-1 from a rented Beverly Hills office on $1,500, building it into the ActOne Group, which now manages workforces internationally. Hear it if your business is about people, since it begins with a founder meeting a need she knew from the inside.
Do this week
Name a group you already belong to or have worked alongside, write down the one problem you have watched its members share, and ask five of them what they would pay to have it solved.