Adjusting Your Character Settings: The Authenticity of Leadership

If you are a member of Facebook, then you may be aware that the default privacy settings are being changed. I don’t lay awake at night worrying that someone is going to do something awful with the information that I post on Facebook, but I took the recommendation to adjust my settings so that only […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 21e – An Interview with Duane Sparks, author of Sales Strategy from the Inside Out

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Special Edition 21e – An Interview with Duane Sparks, author of Sales Strategy from the […]

Ideas Are the Easy Part

One of the best aspects of my role as Fahrenheit 212’s COO is that I’m the first person candidates meet when they’re interviewing for a job. No matter how many people I interview, I am constantly astounded by the ideas they bring to our conversations. Amazing, amazing ideas with clear market opportunities. Drinks that prevent […]

Leadership Inspirations – Never Give Up

“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) Deaf American inventor, scientist and businessman, developer of the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb

Leadership Inspirations – Don’t Just Sit There

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) Oklahoma’s Favorite Son, Cherokee cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor

Five Easy Principles?

It’s not enough to know what to do. Understanding why is important, too, so the Ethics Guy explores the deceptively simple guidelines that govern behavior Over the past four weeks, this column has looked at some ethical questions that arise in professional and personal life, such as the ethics of New Year’s resolutions, whether it’s […]

Leadership Inspirations – Foolish Questions

“There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.” Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865 – 1923) German-American mathematician and electrical engineer fostered development of alternating current; enabling the expansion of the U.S. electric power industry

Thriving in the New Economy

Have you ever wanted to get into the minds of some of the most inspirational dealmakers in the business world? After working at CNBC for almost a decade, I have been lucky enough to talk to some of them on a regular basis. Realizing not everyone has that kind of access, I decided to open […]

Leadership Inspirations – Planned Fortune

“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” Thomas Edison(1847 – 1931) American inventor, scientist and businessman

The Apollo Attitude – When Failure is Not an Option

It’s hard to beat the movie Apollo 13 for drama. Over 200,000 miles from Earth, in the vacuum of space, an explosion disabled a space capsule on its way to the Moon. The mission was over. And it would have been reasonable to assume the astronauts’ lives were over, too. Yet three days later, the […]