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The Importance of Being Your Word
Last night I found myself in an intense conversation a networking event held by my friend and colleague, Michael Margolis from Get Storied. I just met David and we were discussing what the following four organizations all had in common: BP, Goldman Sachs, Toyota, and the Obama Administration. David and I agreed each had recently…
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As CEO, Where Do You Spend Most of Your Time?
On Monday I had a room of 30+ entrepreneurs glaring at me. They had just been told that where they should be spending most of their over-worked and overwhelmed working lives wasn’t even close to what they have been doing. It started when I asked them how much time they spend in the following three…
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Why Failing Should Make You Happy
Here in NYC we are in the midst of elections for mayor and comptroller. Not sure if the rest of the world is paying attention, but New Yorkers are quite mesmerized by a couple of our choices: our former Congressman Anthony Weiner and our former Governor, Eliot Spitzer. Weiner was busted for showing his wiener…
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SOLD OUT: But Green Entrepreneur Summit can be watched online
Today I woke up to find we are way over capacity for our Green Entrepreneur Summit: Scaling Up Without Selling Out for tomorrow, Thursday, July 22nd at 8:30AM Eastern. My partner on this event, Erica Griggs from Carbon Outreach, and I just now were trying to figure out how to tell 25+ people we have…
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It Takes an UnReasonable Person to Change the World
A few weeks ago I was speaking here in New York City to a large group of people working to change the world in which we live. We had over 80 green and social entrepreneurs, a few investors, politicians, educators, authors and media representatives. What quickly became clear was the ones most successful at changing…
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The Key to Jolting Your Sales NOW
Recently I was on the subway getting to a meeting in midtown Manhattan. During 20 minute ride two sets entrepreneurs went through our subway car trying to sell something. One was successful, one left empty handed. From the following two scenarios, can you guess which one was successful? #1: came in and started…
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The Courage to Really Step Up
The woman was handed the mike in our small room of about 150 people. She was nervous about her question to the man on the panel just a few feet away from us. And she had every right to be, given whom she was about to speak to. And even though the woman was not…
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So You Think You Are Right? Sorry!
The other day I went to my dry cleaner. On the way I told myself to stay calm and listen to their side first. And everything would be OK. Well that did not last very long. Soon after entering the store the owner was accusing me of blaming them for damaging my favorite pants. And…
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Not Sure You’re an Entrepreneur?
Every once in a while we can get totally stuck on what to do next. Tuesday was one of those moments for me. I had just starting to speak about the importance of being an entrepreneur to a class of MBA students at a well-known university here in New York. Since the university is a…
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Is Now the Time to Get on Board the Green Biz Train?
“In 1787 a dozen people began meeting in a small print shop in London to abolish the lucrative slave trade [which, in one form or another, engulfed about 75% of the world at that time.] They were reviled and dismissed by businessmen and politicians. It was argued that their crackpot ideas would bring down the…