I was reading one of my favorite bloggers, Fred Wilson, and he has this interesting feature called Zemanta to reblog his posts. I thought it was interesting and tried it out on one of his postings that I thought was relevant to mine. Below is the result. I think they try to make it a standalone posting for a blog, but it looked so random on its own that I decided to put an intro. I’m sure I’ll find more of his work that I’ll want to reblog, so let’s see if they refine this function. In the meantime, I may check out one ...read more
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Last week, I wrote a brief piece on the recession’s accidental entrepreneurs and how the Cup & Saucer Cookie Company story with the mother-daughter duo inspired me to put in an order for cookies. The customer service from beginning to end was great. While I liked the cookies, I can’t say eating them was a blow you away experience like some other desserts. That said, I still ordered more for a friend’s birthday and will probably give them as gifts. In the meantime, I’ll be on the look out for more accidental entrepreneurs. Given how much I love entrepreneurial stories, the least I could do is ...read more Print This Post
Last week, The Huffington Post did a shout out for “accidental entrepreneurs” to share their stories. While “accidental entrepreneurs” during a recession isn’t surprising, it’s uplifting to read their stories amidst so much other negative news. The New York Times also did a piece on “accidental entrepreneurs,” and I thought the anecdote of the Cup and Saucer Cookie Company was so inspiring that I went straight to the web site and put in an order for cookies to support entrepreneurial efforts. Talk about the power of PR! In this story, a mother-daughter team started-up a small cookie business. The daughter, Jackie McAlister, noted that ...read more Print This Post
One of my career fantasies is to be a speechwriter, so I am posting my favorite excerpt from a speech. Full disclosure is that even though I write speeches, it’s something I would love to do more often. Looking back at the quote, it makes me think that I have always been into the idea of entrepreneurialism and reinvention. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; ...read more Print This Post
Last week, JPMorgan Chase led a rally on Wall Street after a surprising, better than expected announcement of $2.7 billion profit. As the workings of the financial industry shake out, the head of JPMorgan Chase, CEO Jamie Dimon, is towering over his peers with his bank as one of the few standing survivors and a board meeting including a special guest, the White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. But his rise to the apex of the banking world wasn’t always clear or straightforward, and I’ll never forget the image from Sandy Weill’s biography, Tearing Down the Walls, when it ...read more Print This Post
A few weeks ago, I heard Geoff Colvin talk about his book, Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else Print This Post
My pieces on Carrie’s come back in the Sex & the City Today, we have Jennifer Berson’s reinvention. She went from pursuing a career in the legal field to launching her own beauty & lifestyle PR boutique agency. The part of her story that fascinates me most is the stunning speed of her career change straight from lawyer to PR fashion boutique agency CEO. She did her homework for about a year, ...read more Print This Post
I’m launching a “Beauty & Brains Unite” mini-series, starting with Desi Duncker’s road to reinvention after Desi has one of those straight A track records, starting with undergrad at Harvard, business school at the Tuck School at Dartmouth and an investment banking position at one of the most prestigious firms in the industry, Goldman Sachs. But like many professionals with a sterling resume, the economic crisis threw ...read more Print This Post
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This blog will be filled with many highs and lows of the stories that surround us. Great friendships help us get out of those lows, and below is an email that my dear friend Roland wrote to cheer me up during a really challenging moment a couple of years ago. I wanted to relaunch my site with his email since it captures the essence and spirit that I’m hoping the site will convey. Roland’s pick me up when I was in Latin America is about perseverance, inspiration, hope, humor and appreciation for great friends who help you out of the lows and are cheering you on during ...read more |
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