Leadership
CEO Health: Stop the Rust
Twitter It!By Verne Harnish “Growth Guy”
In the same (simple) way that lemon juice prevents a quartered apple from turning brown, high dose vitamin C prevents harmful oxidation from sapping the life out of today’s busy executive – and now we understand the mechanism
Year after year I’ve watched CEOs come off high stress [...]
One Powerful Culture
Twitter It!By Verne Harnish “Growth Guy”
No company better exemplifies the power of a strong corporate culture than Zappos, the online shoe and clothing retailer acquired by Amazon last November for $1.2 billion. Just over a decade old, its corporate culture is the critical glue that helps this rapidly growing company deliver on its promise [...]
House vs. Home
Twitter It!There is a difference between a house and a home.
A house is a structure, nothing more, nothing less. To build a house requires a technical knowledge, materials and some money. There are well built houses and there are some weak ones too. A house serves as a place to keep our [...]
Conscious Capitalism Movement
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At its core, Capitalism is about voluntary association and collaboration, which is one of the reasons Capitalism works, why it won the battle with Socialism in the 20th Century, and why it continues to persist and flourish. But the abuses of the early 21st century (e.g. Tyco, Worlcom, Enron), the recent financial “meltdown,” and [...]
Amway of the Rich
Twitter It!Today I spoke with a friend that told me he just see an entrepreneur we met 5 years ago. This entrepreneur was beginning a company to custom-made dress shirts for the wealthy executives.
So the business idea was to send nice looking girls to visit wealthy individuals to their offices and sell them custom-made dress [...]