Dear Email Recipient, Please find the enclosed message where I will confidently and aggressively articulate my point of view in a way that I would never consider doing if you were...
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If you are reading this, I’d say the odds are pretty good that you’ve seen “The Social Network,” the 2010 blockbuster movie that gave its viewers a...
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What is really new anymore? If you tell me the latest new thing, I’ll tell you what idea was innovated to create it. Tell me about Vine and I’ll tell you about...
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I spend a lot of time writing as a millennial in a leadership role. While truly a millennial, my experience is different than many other millennials and my age puts me closer to a...
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Nov 27, 2012
This past weekend I watched a CEO summit on Bloomberg Television. The idea was to bring on CEO’s of leading global organizations to discuss the rapidly approaching fiscal cliff and for these global business leaders to provide some insight into how they feel these delicate matters need to be treated. The panel was comprised of a number of high...
Nov 24, 2012
Another Thanksgiving has passed. Did you make sure to tell the world what you are grateful for? Gratitude, without a doubt is one of the key characteristics of a leader. Since we all know that leading in a vacuum isn’t really possible, it is only with the positive contributions of others that we as leaders are able to accomplish our goals. However, I...
Nov 20, 2012
People are creatures of habit. No matter how spontaneous we try to be, we often find ourselves in a rut of the same routine. With routine and consistency, comes comfort. With comfort we can fall into a pit of complacency. A dangerous and stagnant place where the most important things get left to the side because they aren’t part of the routine. If...
Nov 15, 2012
When Albert Einstein said “The Definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result,” he was merely recognizing the fault in continuing a behavior if your desire is to change course. Therefore if you continue to do the same thing because the result is what you are looking for then insanity would really become...
Nov 13, 2012
It was the perfect job. A flexible position with an interesting company, and an exciting new learning opportunity. One problem: my boss-to-be was a Millennial. I’d been out of the work force for a few years, enjoying full-time motherhood. So the idea of reporting to someone who was (nearly) young enough to be my son was a small concern. But the...
Nov 7, 2012
When the Going Gets Tough…What do you do? Another year is about to wrap up. Was it good for your business? If so, can you point to what it was that made this year a success? If not, is the deficiency as clear as mud? No matter what business you are in, it is a guarantee (absolute) that not every day will be a winner. Similar to every other part of our...
Nov 5, 2012
Moments in Time When I was 21 years old, life was staring at me and I couldn’t even blink. I had no idea what was ahead of me. Taking on marriage, fatherhood and trying to figure out “what I wanted to be when I grew up” was a lot to take on all at one time. Can you relate? Knowing the next move is always a mystery, and life seems to provide...
Oct 25, 2012
Well, I’ve finally done it. After much poking and prodding from friends, family and supporters I have taken the leap to add one more thing on my resume. “Author” Next month in November with an exact date to be determined, I will release my first book “The Millennial CEO” via my friend, colleague and mentor Chris Westfall’s...
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