Steve Harvey: Mentoring Youth for a Positive Future
It is a warm June day in Little Elm, Texas, about 35 miles north of Dallas. A slight breeze moves through prevalent shade trees on the expansive ranch owned by entertainer Steve Harvey. One hundred young men from female-led, single-parent homes are spending Father’s Day weekend here, receiving mentorship from a cadre of male volunteers, […]
The Upside to Stress
The Stress Queen, as Martha Stewart once christened her, is having an incredibly volatile week, even by her standards. Kathleen Hall, Ph.D., a former Wall Street trader turned stress-management and mindful-living maven, is in the editing stages of her latest book, Mindful Living Everyday (Oak Haven Press, 2014). She’s also juggling several other projects and […]
Jim Collins: Precision Climbing
Even dressed in a dark suit, blue dress shirt and tie, and black tassel loafers, Jim Collins seems at home on low-level rocks near the Crown Rock Trailhead in Boulder, Colo. The rock faces here are intimate friends, having served as his backyard playhouse most of his life. At the urging of his chief of […]
Marching in Step with Jim Collins’ Concepts
Jim Collins, featured in the October 2013 SUCCESS cover story, likes metaphors and acronyms. He writes of BHAGs, hedgehogs, flywheels and more. In Great by Choice, he explores the idea of what he calls the 20-Mile March, a process of bringing discipline to achieve BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals). The 20-Mile March marker lays out […]
Daniel Pink on Honing Your Pitch
Daniel Pink is an idea machine, not to mention a best-selling author. Here are six pitches he deems capable of selling an idea: 1. The One-Word Pitch Pink’s tip: Write a 50-word pitch. Reduce it to 25 words. Then to six words. One of those remaining half-dozen is almost certainly your one-word pitch. Example: MasterCard’s […]
Daniel Pink: Modern-Day Mentalist
Daniel Pink revels in ideas—big ones, little ones, those that need action, those that need contemplation, and those that may lead to even more ideas. You might even call the best-selling author an idea junkie; he’s OK with the label. His most recent work, To Sell Is Human (Riverhead Books, 2012), is a prime example […]
Changing the World: The Case for Future Abundance
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Abundantly Clear: Peter Diamandis Looks to the Future
Don’t waste Peter Diamandis’ time with glass-half-full or half-empty assessments. The perpetual-motion entrepreneur who says “the best way to predict the future is to create it yourself” is apt to knock those glasses over on his way by. “I really believe that all problems are solvable, that it is a matter of getting the right […]
Working from the Inside Out
Janice Marturano says she never considered herself a “New Agey type.” She had never
Who’s Your Woz?
When you think of the gold standards of business partnerships, several come quickly to mind: He
The Customer Is King
When their customers come first, companies can thrive even as consumer critiques explode on social media and as the economy stagnates. The proof lives at corporate culture pioneers Zappos.com, Southwest Airlines and The Walt Disney Co. These highly successful enterprises offer different philosophies, management strategies and lessons that can be adapted and applied to smaller […]
Soldiering On
Col. Greg Gadson is a big man, a former linebacker who played for Army, a highly decorated vete