Entrepreneur Stories

How To Bounce Your Business Back From A PR Disaster (Tiger Woods Style)

Who will ever forget the Thanksgiving of 2009? We awoke on Friday morning from our turkey induced slumber to find out that Tiger Woods’ wife beat him up overnight. Tiger...

Lessons from 8 of the Greatest Marketers of All Time

The greatest marketers of all time bring us different lessons, approaches and philosophies but they all achieve the same results — conversions and loyalty. Create your own marketing with one,...

The Teacher Is The Best Student

It is one of my favorite personal ah-ha moments: My friend, JB Blanchard, and I were hastily walking to a speaking event I had on a college campus. We were...

Breaking Rules

As I write this, I just finished hosting the 2015 Rule Breaker Awards. Amazing entrepreneur after amazing entrepreneur was recognized for breaking the rules. Then it hit me like a...

The Shoulder

I am working on my next book as I write this. One of the privileges of being an author is you get to speak with extraordinary people from all walks...

What Do You Stand For?

What do you stand for? What is your purpose? How is your company a platform for your purpose? So, tell me. What do you stand for? Got it? Good. Now...

25 Business Quotes To Live By

Entrepreneurs in general are take-charge, independent people. I sure fit into this mold myself, but I also recognize the wisdom that can be gleaned from the words of business and...

One More

The best athlete takes one more lap than the other guy. The best student studies one more hour than the other guy. The best entrepreneur does one more thing than...

SXSW Author’s Dinner With Sam Horn, Daniel Pink, Nilofer Merchant, Nir Eyal

SXSW 2015 was amazing (albeit a bit overwhelming).  After speaking about Profit First at the Austin convention center, my friend (and awesome author of the new book, Stand Out) Dorie Clark...

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