I first met Dimo Dimov (@dpdimov) in 2004, as he was finishing his PhD in Entrepreneurship at London Business School. That same year Dimo [link] joined me as a professor in the Entrepreneurship Department at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain...
If you are seriously ill, your first thought is to go to a hospital. But in the US, that move may kill you. I am not kidding. Consider these recent words from Robby Berman (@everyrobby): Let’s get right to it: the third leading cause of death in the...
In architecture, the most overused word today seems to be “iconic”. In business, the word is “entrepreneur”. That’s not simply because a Google search of the word yields 217 million results. The word is used much too loosely. I have heard the word...
Gene Roddenberry had failed. Yes, he had been a World War II pilot who flew 89 missions and had won the Distinguished Flying Cross. Yes, he had published poems and stories. And, yes, as a spokesman and speechwriter for the chief of the Los Angeles...
When Max De Pree was CEO of the legendary furniture maker Herman Miller (@HermanMiller) [link], he wrote a book to help others develop as leaders. Since Leadership Is An Art was published in 1989, it has sold more than 800,000 copies. And it’s still available...
For Kenton Lee (@ShoeThatGrows), things started to look up when he started to focus down — at shoes. As Teodora Zareva [link] explains in her great @BigThink article [link] on the movement (and non-profit business) that Kenton Lee started: After graduating...