Last week, I watched Dave Isay receive the 2015 TED Prize of 1,000,000 dollars. This is a great honor for Dave Isay and his team at StoryCorps. When you win the TED Prize, you are asked to share your wish with a live audience of what you would like to…
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Three Ways Serving Leaders Build Breakthrough Connections
How can you compete with highly connected people? How do you connect to your many different stakeholders on a regular basis? The more complicated our lives get through using new technologies, the more critical it is for serving leaders to connect personally. I thought it might help to share several…
Continue Reading....A Bit of Blarney; a St. Patrick’s Day Story
So what moves you? What makes you feel connected to generations of family and friends who were here before you that still impact the way you see your life? For most of us, we’ve learned about our past from a story told by someone in the family who has the…
Continue Reading....Who’s the Most Interesting Investor in Silicon Valley?
How would you like to be the most influential person in one of the most interesting parts of the world? What would you do with your influence? How would you use your unique strengths to influence the world for the better? Who do you think is the most influential person…
Continue Reading....Does Your Investing Makes the World Go Round?
We talked about spotting and investing in the next big idea earlier this week. I got several calls from friends and colleagues who liked the blog, but asked me if I really thought this was all I needed to pick the next big thing. They asked me specifically if a person…
Continue Reading....How Can Entrepreneurs Pick the Next Big Thing?
How do you pick the right people to help you expand, both personally and professionally? How do you advise the people close to you why you think they should get more involved in the next big thing? I’ve made my life riding the waves with many of the world’s most…
Continue Reading....Does Your Culture Need a Strategy Upgrade?
I’ve heard it said culture eats strategy for lunch. I believe the quote was originally from Peter Drucker. The quote may have been true at the time of Peter’s death, but I believe that many of the organizations that Peter worked with have struggled in the new economy. Mr. Drucker…
Continue Reading....How Great Recruiting Can Help You Build a Great Team
We talked earlier this week about how leaders need to invest to get the best ROI on their time investments. I believe the number one responsibility of leader is recruiting, developing, and retaining key people for their organization. Today, we talk about recruiting, something I have significant experience in, having…
Continue Reading....Leaders Are You Serving One or Many With Your Service?
How is your organization set up? Is it set up to serve the one, or the many? Today, we have people who are online with millions of followers. They have created great systems to make a living selling a small percentage of their followers their products and services. Are they serving…
Continue Reading....What Can Entrepreneurs Learn from George Washington Today?
George Washington led our country well over 220 years ago. How would he deal with the many challenges facing serving leaders today? What can we serving entrepreneurs learn from this revolutionary leader? Could his revolutionary leadership strategies still help entrepreneurs today?
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