Recently, Walter Isaacson, the author of Steve Jobs’ official biography, wrote an article for Harvard Business Review talking about what we as entrepreneurs and CEO’s can learn from Jobs. Here is my take on 5 of the lessons Isaacson highlights: Impute: The moral behind this first lesson is that people do judge a book by… Read More
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Are you curious how the rich get rich? Well it all starts with a wealthy mindset. In fact, a wealthy mindset is the secret to building wealth. Believe you can and you will. A rich frame of mind, regardless of physical proof, is STEP 1 to building wealth. And the secret to a wealthy mindset… Read More
In a recent meeting of my CEO board we got onto the subject of banks. I was somewhat amazed at the serious dislike these CEO’s had for the typical bank these days. Being a former (“recovering”) commercial and investment banker I decided not to take it personally and we spent the next half hour or… Read More
Stop selling and instead have people start to buy! If you’ve been around me, or my blog, or any of my other online content – Facebook or Twitter, you know that I’m an entrepreneur and an investor. I own or have owned several businesses. In each instance we (i.e the company) has sold a lot… Read More
If I listed 5 traits of a successful entrepreneur which one would you rank as most important? Here’s the list: Persistent, has a will to succeed, knows his/her line of business really well, thinks like a billionaire, is well capitalized. Go ahead, seriously, which would you rank as most important? If you pick one that’s… Read More
“One day in the mid – 1980’s , Warren Buffett got on the elevator a Kiewit Plaza in midtown Omaha. He was going to bios office on the 14th floor. On the floor of the elevator was a penny. None of the employees of Peter Kiewit Sons’ Inc., a construction conglomerate, paid any attention. Buffett… Read More
In 1952 a middle aged salesman walked through the doors of a business in San Bernardino, CA and his life changed forever! What he saw was an operation that worked like a Swiss watch. High school aged kids were producing a product easily and effortlessly with perfect precision every time. As he watched the business… Read More
If you’re an entrepreneur with a home based business or you’re thinking about starting a business from home, here are 5 musts… I’m an entrepreneur and an investor and I’ve run my various businesses and investments from our home for over 10 years now. My household dynamics have changed over the years – my youngest… Read More