We recently had two men from our group participate in The Race Across America (RAAM). Wayne Pignolet, executive and entrepreneur, rode bicycles with three other men from Oceanside, CA to Annapolis, MD. Believe it or not, they did it in six days, nine hours, 28 minutes! David Barth also a member of our men’s group was part [...]
I have written before on how learning to be the man you want to be is much like being an entrepreneur. Bob Sutton of RobbSutton.com wrote a post that not only nails the core characteristics of being a successful entrepreneur, without knowing it he nails what it takes to be the man you want to [...]
This TED video illustrates teaching our kids to be entrepreneurs instead of teaching them to be employees. Cameron Herold struggled and cheated his way through school like I did. He had me in tears with his passionate stories about how he, like so many kids, are done a disservice by putting them all in the [...]
Sociology professor Michael Kimmel speaks about being a man on Dad’s Unplugged. His solution is that we need a strong dose of being an entrepreneur, his ‘self made man’. Kimmel claims our current recession is so tough because traditional male industries are leaving. He goes on to suggest that our traditional model of being a [...]
What better way to grow than to start a business. Over the last 30 years many of my clients have been entrepreneurs. They might have been some of my most tense clients, but they were often some of the easiest to work with because they understood change. Starting and operating a business forces you to [...]
If you’re not happy with what you’ve got, what radical changes are you willing to make to change what you’re getting? These are the words of Seth Godin. I certainly could it say it better. He is addressing marketing, but creating radical change to produce radical results holds true for everything, including our lives. What [...]
