Your vibe creates your tribe. What I mean is that your vibe is what draws the people around you together. Think about your work associates and even your circle of friends––how do they fit together? How do they function together as a group? If you want to do good for mankind, then make sure your
One thing I have always struggled with is finding work-life balance. At the inevitable nexus of a full business life and a full personal family life, my hope is that the conditionality so often driven into us in the business world doesn’t creep into my relationships with friends and family. For all of us in
Hey, business leaders and CEOs! Are you ready for a wake up call? A recent survey by Burson-Marsteller, “Making it in America: The View from America,” says 61% of Americans don’t trust you. Hellloooo!? As innovators, we need to explore the reason for this. The American people want to trust business leaders, especially when it comes to
Do you trust your team members at work? Think about the Trust Factor in business and then, on a scale of 1-5, ask yourself how much you trust their decision making and cognitive or creative abilities. Being able to trust those that you work with can make or break not just one project, but all
How do you assess how you are doing with your business timelines? I use the fireworks on the 4th of July as my annual business timeline checkup. YEP! Just like January 1st, while everyone is celebrating and watching the spectacular beauty of a fireworks display, I am going through my checklist of what I’d like
Today I have been asked many times about my take on the headline “Amazon Buying Whole Foods.” What I think is that this whole (no pun intended) thing is a little surprising to me. For one thing, the 13.7 billion dollar valuation doesn’t seem that big, especially when compared to all the crazy valuations and
If work stress has made you act like a jerk to business associates in the past, it’s time to repent! I don’t mean repentance as part of a religious ritual; I am talking about business repentance–which is recognizing today how we may have negatively impacted other people in our career. In other words, accepting and