Tag Archives | Personal Entrepreneurship

It’s Not Bragging if You Back It Up

By on May 4, 2011 in Culture & Leadership

If Sunday’s night news taught us nothing else, it was a reminder of how you behave when you have a success is as important as how you behave when you’re failing. Do you pump your fists, take credit, and smile a lot when things are going really well? Do you act like a beat puppy [...]

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Curing the Yackity Yack Disease

By on February 28, 2011 in Culture & Leadership, The Personal Story

At Apple, my best boss* once walked out of a room, after calling a bunch of us “Yackety-Yakers”.  Even though I’ve lived in the Bay Area of California since I was 5 years old, I definitely miss a lot of cultural references. I like to blame this on the fact that I don’t watch television, [...]

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What Surrounds Us, Affects Us.

By on January 26, 2011 in Entrepreneurship, Featured, Social

We are all connected. We mostly know that. Do we also realize that who we hang with affects our moods, what we think about as valid, it shows up in our decisions, and it affects what we create? Maybe. This week, I worked with an editor to create my first post for the HBR (Harvard [...]

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Living the Dream

By on January 13, 2011 in The Personal Story

An entrepreneur & CEO wrote me an email around the holidays that sounded just a bit desperate; enough for me to take time out of family time over the holidays to take a meeting. It took her nearly an hour to unveil her dilemma, slowly revealing what she no longer wanted and then, finally, sharing [...]

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Who Influences Your Awesomeness?

By on November 2, 2010 in Entrepreneurship

She’s a Queen Networker. That’s how someone described me. Adding, “she knows everyone you need to know.”  Quite an introduction, yet also rather lame. Who cares if I know people? “Networking” isn’t really the point. It’s who we connect with us so we do better. Rather, each of us should meet the people who can [...]

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Perfectness

By on October 24, 2010 in The Personal Story

When I first worked at Apple, most of the people leading change were perfect. Perfect as in: went to a great prep school, ended up at an ivy league, had gone onto Harvard, got recruited by this hot fruit company in Silicon Valley, the place where the 1984 ad was written by Bill Cleary and [...]

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Avoiding Depression

By on October 19, 2010 in Entrepreneurship

Don’t we all have an aspiration? I believe we all do.  Perhaps many. But we can deny them. Sometimes we ignore them, to believe they really don’t exist. Sometimes we allow them to be, but refuse to act because we think the aspiration is unrealistic. Most often, we see our dreams or aspirations as something we [...]

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Raising Entrepreneurs

By on December 1, 2005 in Entrepreneurship

An article in the December 2005, Inc Magazine talked about how to raise entrepreneurs. Here are a few great ideas that can be applied to kids or ourselves.

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