Tony Hsieh has crafted Zappos into a place where company culture and customer service are supreme. He takes his employees out for drinks when it's time for a company meeting and encourages them to be themselves at work. When you are planning your career, factor in the importance of corporate culture.
Continue reading...Friday, July 17, 2009
In his book The Monk and the Riddle, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Randy Komisar asks "What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life?" Take a detour from the Deferred Life Plan and learn what builds a truly successful business: passion.
Continue reading...Monday, May 18, 2009
An awesome guest video post by Matt Wilson, co-founder of Under30CEO.com. Are you designing the lifestyle you want to live? Whatever it is that you're passionate to do with your life, dream it, live it, do it.
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Jun Loayza is a young CMO to keep your eye on! I met Jun through the Brazen Careerist Gen-Y blog network, and we’ve exchanged thoughts a few times as we both worked through some late nights! As co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Future Delivery, he’s certainly an interesting guy to follow if you want [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 12, 2008
For any readers in the greater Sacramento area, there is a great business networking opportunity on Tuesday, June 17th at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis: The New California 100. Billed as the Central Valley’s first leadership summit, the event will honor the top 100 companies in Northern California that generate more than $50 billion [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 4, 2008
I’m still traveling through Spain for the holidays, but I have some useful goal-setting exercises on the way soon! In the meantime, here’s some interesting material to keep your appetite satiated. At the 2007 Entrepreneurship Week USA opening ceremonies at Stanford University in California, Carl Schramm (President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation) surprised [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 29, 2007
Entrepreneurs, self promoters, and anyone who wants to live unrestrained by the rules of “normal life” have to learn to sell themselves. If you’ve got a business idea you really want to see take off, or if you’d like to excel through the ranks of your company, or even to build great personal relationships that [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 2, 2007
Rajesh Setty is president of Foresight Plus, where he helps give his professional clients the unfair business advantage. He also blogs at Life Beyond Code, where he coaches the rest of us on how to have the unfair life advantage! Rajesh has written numerous books (he had his first one published at age 13!) and [...]
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Monday, July 27, 2009
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