I met Steve a few years ago and have enjoyed every conversation with him. His latest book “Goal Free Living: How to Have the Life You Want Now” became the #1 Amazon.com “Business Motivation” and #1 BarnesandNoble.com “Self-Improvement” best seller. He is working on his own TV show that will be launched soon. (click on… Continue reading
Date Archives → December 2006
Convenience at a cost
I have always been amazed looking at the “10 items or less” checkout counters in the supermarkets. At the outset, it looks like a great idea as people with less than ten items should not wait longer because they have only a few items. But it does not make sense just for the same reason…. Continue reading
Quought for the Day #07 – Heidi Roizen
Heidi Roizen needs no introduction in the VC community and beyond. She is one of the managing directors of Mobius VC. Heidi serves on the boards of multiple companies as well as the National Venture Capital Association. Occasionally she serves as a guest lecturer on entrepreneurship at Stanford University. Unfortunately most people don’t enjoy what… Continue reading
Quought for the Day #06 – Mark Goulston
Dr. Mark Goulston is an emotional intelligence specialist who helps people “get out of their own way.” I got introduced to Mark recently and quickly realized that I had missed a lot of things. I have started to catch up on Mark’s wonderful work in this area but going at this rate, I know I… Continue reading
Quought for the Day #05 – John Battelle
John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author. Currently founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing, he is also a founder and executive producer of conferences in the media, technology, communications, and entertainment industries and “band manager” with BoingBoing.net. Previously, Battelle was founder, chairman, and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The… Continue reading
Quought for the Day #04 – Phil Gerbyshak
Phil Gerbyshak is a popular blogger, author and a manager but more than anything he is a giver and someone everyone would want to be friends with. If you are his friend, the only problem will be that you have to work very hard to reciprocate (but you may still fail to catch up) (click… Continue reading
Quought for the day #03 – Steve Pavlina
Steve Pavlina runs the most visited personal development site in the world. There is so much information on his website that people can really get lost (in a good way.) (click on the button to read the background for this series) Steve’s Quought For The Day What would I do differently this year if I… Continue reading
Quought for the day #02 – Susan Scott
I still remember that day. One of my mentors gave me Susan‘s book “Fierce Conversations” and while I knew that there was a reason that this book was given to me, I kept wondering – “But, I don’t want to have Fierce Conversations” 🙂 That was years ago and I have to say that –… Continue reading
Quought for the day #01 – Seth Godin
We start the series with my hero Seth Godin‘s contribution. Seth has been a huge inspiration for me and my writing. I have read almost everything Seth has written (mostly multiple times.) So it is a great honor to start this series with his question. (click on the button to read the background for this… Continue reading
Announcing "Quought for The Day" series
No, there was no spelling mistake. Quought = Question that provokes thought. Questions are important. Thinking is important. Questions that make you think are very important! Some background first – I have always believed that it is not always the answers but sometimes asking one good question is what is required to make a difference… Continue reading