It’s easy to look at someone who’s successful at just about anything and be more than a little envious. This is because really, really successful people make it look easy. The irony is that in most cases, getting to the point of real success was, for most successful people, anything but easy! Author Judy Carter […]
In his latest book, Get Rich Carefully, Jim Cramer dedicates several pages to the praise of Whole Foods. He also works in a clever zinger, “Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to shop for fish at Whole Foods, he’ll be broke within the year.” Ha! In all seriousness, […]
One of my favorite parts of the original Men in Black movie is where agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) of the Men in Black agency is giving new agent J (Wil Smith) a tour of the facility. J asks the question, “So…what branch of the government do we report to, anyway?” To which K replies, […]
Steve Jobs was known for passionately quoting Picasso’s “Good artists copy, great artists steal” line. At first read that may set off your ethical radar and cause the hair on the back of your neck to stand up. As it says in Ecclesiastes, there truly is nothing new under the sun, so “stealing” isn’t always […]
If you’ve visited Amazon recently, you may have had your first experience with Amazon’s new “Flip to back” feature. Their “Look inside” feature has always been a hit, so this addition may not be that impressive to you, but I think its subtlety is precisely why it is noteworthy. The “Look Inside” feature lets you […]
Many organizations live and die by personality or behavioral typing. Personally, I’ve always been a little skeptical of how it’s possible to take a creature as remarkable as a human being and type them as this way or that way based on a few questions or on some limited observation. Here’s a free resource for […]
In his autobiography, Jack: Straight From the Gut, Jack Welch, arguably the greatest CEO of all time, makes an insightful proclamation: Companies can’t give job security. Only satisfied customers can do that. If you own the business, there’s your formula for success. If you happen to be the employee of an organization, the formula works […]
You know I hate to name any one book as my “favorite” on any subject, be it business or entertainment, but if I had to pick ONE that I think everyone alive today should read, one that was so inspiring to me I found myself wishing I could get YOU and everyone you care about […]
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