January 2011
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October 2009
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“Look around you. 1 out ever 10 of you will be a superstar. A few more than that...”
– Ken Lewis, recently retired CEO of Bank of America, to a room full of summer interns in 2004, including myself. It was at this moment that I knew I could never work at an investment bank. (via gbattle)
September 2009
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August 2009
8 posts
Can You Take a Punch?
As a young professional trying to figure a lot of things out, it dawned on me while watching an old ESPN clip of Mike Tyson of all things, that in order to be succesful, you have to be able to take a punch.
Mike said it best, “Everybody has a plan until they get hit!” So true. If you fashion yourself as anyone who ever had dreams of doing special things in life, you have to accept...
Adequate Performance Gets A Generous Severence... →
NetFlix CEO/founder Reed Hastings keeps it honest with his assessment on the NetFlix corporate culture.
Hat tip to Greg Battle, eclectic entrepreneur extraordinaire. You can find his stuff at Leftover Takeout .
“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his...”
– Nick Carraway
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Wake Up Mr. West!
I originally started this blog because I wanted to discuss ecommerce. My original thought was, ‘there isn’t a lot of info out there for small businesses to launch ecommerce sites or explore what’s happening in the field’. I spoke with friends, trying to tweak topics and I realized I have a ridiculously wide range of interests and didn’t want to be tied down...