Jay Abraham, a dear and brilliant colleague as well as one of the most eloquent, magisterial business writers I know, sent me a fascinating email yesterday. The title was: If a Tree Falls in the Forest and There’s Nobody Around, Does It Make A Sound? OR…Is There ANYBODY Out There Listening/Hearing Me/You/YOUR CUSTOMER?
I found [...]
Occupy Wall Street is a grass roots protest against big public institutions like banks, which up until recently, have been able to avoid public scrutiny regarding principles and practices that are full of internal contradictions.
In recent months, it hasn’t just been predator banks, subprime mortgages, and absurdly high interest fees that have come into [...]
What does the new CEO of Philips, Frans van Houten, have in common with Dutch explorers of the past, such as Henry Hudson who sought to find an easterly passage to Asia, or Willem Janszoon who recorded European landfall on the Australian continent?
These hearty Dutch explorers each pursued an Impossible Dream in service of [...]
Yesterday, I spoke to a colleague, Jake, CEO of a successful boutique consulting business in the financial services. Jake had come to me with what he said was an exciting entrepreneurial “boot strapping” opportunity just few months ago that he wanted me to get involved in.
Today, it was as if Jake was a different [...]
I was struck by the importance of the genius of the “and” when preparing to do a speech on leadership in Seoul this November at a big conference sponsored by the Korea Economic Daily. Bill Clinton and Bill Gates were to be speakers at the conference too. As my friend Gary Peck CEO of LOOPTWORKS [...]
