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The Will to Rise Again
Read more: The Will to Rise AgainI grew up with the Fresh Prince – the TV show, the music, the movies, all of it. I’d heard good things about, Will, Will Smith’s autobiography and I wasn’t disappointed. There were lots of great stories and lessons from his life. I was ready to give this five stars until a disappointing ending. More […]
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No win without a Winning culture
Read more: No win without a Winning cultureOn the road from a few bucks to a few billion, every company creates the same problems for itself. One of those must be solved in order to achieve lasting success: Preventing growth from destroying culture. You see, every successful startup has a special culture – whatever it is – that propels it to those […]
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Three lessons for your business from Steve Jobs
Read more: Three lessons for your business from Steve JobsIt’s been 10 years since Steve Jobs passed away, but the lessons to be learned from his life and the business he built will be around for a long time. Possibly the best insight into what made Jobs what he was comes from the biography “Becoming Steve Jobs” by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. The book was published in 2015 but I read it […]
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Asking (and answering) the Ultimate Question
Read more: Asking (and answering) the Ultimate QuestionIn the Ultimate Question, Fred Reichheld tells the story of Intuit, describing a problem that FiveFour regularly helps businesses solve. Co-founder Scott Cook had built a successful company on the mission “To make the customer feel so good about the product they’ll go and tell five friends to buy it.” When the company was in […]
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Passing the $10 million plateau
Read more: Passing the $10 million plateauReady, Fire, Aim started as a retreat serial entrepreneur Michael Masterson led for other entrepreneurs. He wanted to impart the lessons he had learned from a 30-year career starting and running several multi-million-dollar businesses. Later developed and expanded as a book, the subtitle states his objective; teaching the reader to take a business from “Zero […]
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What I read in May
Read more: What I read in MayMy reading slowed a bit in May as I hired a business coach to help me with some changes in the business. It’s something I hope to write more about at a future time, but it required a lot of my time and attention, so reading decreased a bit. But learning did not. I was […]
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Finding order in chaos
Read more: Finding order in chaosLeaders can’t control their circumstances, but they can always control how they respond to those circumstances. How you respond to a crisis – from a small personnel issue to one as a big as a new coronavirus – determines your ability to lead.
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Who am I? Why am I here?
Read more: Who am I? Why am I here?I’m a life-long learner and content creator who plans to share the best of both on this blog.
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