Sal Greco at Surfer Lifestyle Design gives us some incredible lessons he’s learned from riding the big waves, and why it’s important to seek your own Thrill in life, wherever you find it.

For two months, Bangkok Thailand was victim to violent political unrest and riots, with military “Live Fire Zones” where soldiers were ordered to shoot on sight and homemade explosives and Molotov cocktails erupting all around the city. Ask yourself this: would you truly want to be a part of a bloody, real-life revolution?

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.

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.

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.

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 to learn about startups and [...]

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 in revenue and employ more [...]

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 some of the audience when he [...]