Do You Have a Personal Board of Directors?
This is a concept I had been mulling for years. Until one day, I realized I already had a personal board of directors. The light bulb went off when I read a WSJ article, on eight tips for setting up...
Why Stories Are So Important
"Sharing stories is the way to create a network of passionate supporters that can help spread ideas and make them a reality." --Saul KaplanI came across Kaplan's blog post, "Stories Can Change The World," when he followed me on Twitter....
From Plasma Physics to Wall Street
A Wall Street Journal article, "Physicist Makes "Big Bang" at Citi". Hamid Biglari's career highlights range from improving the efficiency of a fusion reactor to leading McKinsey's investment banking practice to helping restructure the financial services company, Citi, after one...
Cracking the Code of Networking: Givers, Takers, and Protectors
I’ve been going to networking events for years, first as a way to build my career and then as a way to build my business. For some, this may sound like hell on earth. I prefer to think of it...
Remembering Dad, 35 Years Later
I was startled this morning when I read an email about someone remembering my dad, who died over 35 years ago:"...in Boston last week, there was a conversation about old time calculators and early computers and some else there said....I...
Have We Become a Society of Driveling, Rude, Multi-tasking, Automatons?
Factoids and observations over the last month have led me to wonder where modern society is headed: Heard on NPR, teenagers send or receive an average of 2,272 text messages per month. That's nearly 80 per day. I can only...
What If Your Idea is No Good, Misinformed, or Driven By Ego?
I recently tweeted that there is a danger in turning an idea into a movement. This was in response to a friend of mine who had tweeted a famous line from the song, Alice's Restaurant, "three people makes an organization."...
Daniel Pink on What Really Motivates People and The Importance of Service and Persistence
I admit it. I'm biased. Anything that Dan Pink writes or speaks on, I usually agree with. It's no different with this TED talk he gave this summer on the mismatch between what social scientists know about motivation and how...