“ON BEING A PIVOT-WISE BUSINESS LEADER” Today’s blog is a supplemental to my published book on business pivots. The book is entitled “On Being a Pivot-Wise Business Leader: The Secrets of Strategic Leadership for Successful Business Pivots” and if…
I first met Aaron when he came to give a presentation and I was asked to walk with him to welcome him and help guide him to the location where the presentation would be given. We chatted briskly…
Jon Kraft is an entrepreneur extraordinaire. He is also an inspiration to those aspiring to be entrepreneurs. Perhaps best known as a co-founder of Pandora, a company that went from the unknown to now becoming known worldwide and a…
When I first met Cindy Crawford, she radiated the same incredible beauty that had been her ticket to becoming a supermodel. She mentioned that she was nearing 50 years of age, but perhaps even more surprising was the declaration…
I was a speaker at an industry event and during a speaker’s reception first met William Wang (he was the keynote speaker at the event). As founder and CEO of Vizio, he had built the company from the…
We all were taught from a young age that we aren’t to judge a book by its cover, which is an expression that translates into not judging others upon a first impression that is formed when initially meeting someone. Reality:…
The right stuff. Fearless, impassioned, visionary. These are some of the typical ways that business advisers describe entrepreneurs. There has become a glut of prognosticators that offer alleged insights as to whether someone is suitable to be an entrepreneur. Often,…
Matryoshka dolls. Have you ever seen one of them? You probably have. Let me call them by their more popular name, Russian nesting dolls. Yes, that’s right, those cute wooden dolls, one inside the other, where you just seem to…