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 [...]
Top search firms, Fortune 500s, and Sand Hill Road VC firms are increasingly choosing candidates who have spent a year in a business Start Up Incubator rather than those who are graduates of Harvard, Stanford, or Tuck.
The reason, said a friend who works at Heidrick and Struggles, is that, while business schools give you [...]
I had a conversation with my friend and mentor James MacGregor Burns this past summer. The noted Presidential historian, now 90 years, asked me what I was doing. I said I was still passionately engaged in a life-long inquiry into the topic of leadership transformation or how one becomes an extraordinary leader.
Burns replied, “It’s [...]
