Insights on leadership, entrepreneurialism and management
Five Plus Steps to Success
Read moreLeave it to engineers to reduce the formula for success to a mathematical equation. Ps = 1 – Pf This shorthand, from left to right, reads “the probability of success is equal to one minus the probability of failure.”...
AI, automation, employment
Read moreMany captains of technology are openly predicting the demise of humankind from advancements in automation and artificial intelligence (AI). Luddites – 19th century workers who believed machinery was threatening their jobs – said much the same thing, sans AI....
Public Policy and Private Business
Read moreWith the S&P 500 index up 5.3% since the start of the year, some are hailing the rally as the last part of a “dead cat” bounce, returning from the depths of the Great Recession. Others believe it to...
Why Silicon Valley’s Mystique Isn’t Being Exported
Read moreSilicon Valley’s aura is unique. Try though they might, other localities have yet to replicate it and might never do so. Yet many of these same factors can be part of any singular company, or a localized industry. In...
Life Can Be the Pits
Read more“This isn’t fun!” Life – including the mundane moments, unmet expectations, and plain old enduring – seems like a drag to many people. To others, these challenges are the spices of life. This last group are quite often entrepreneurs....
Your Personal Brand
Read moreIago knew of what he spoke of when saying, “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls.” Your “good name” is your brand. It is what you are known for, whether...