Mastering Commitment, Trust, and Other Leadership Topics
Matt Alexander is a successful, serial entrepreneur, with an early hit called Illumibowl. His podcast is called “Inventor’s Guide: Turn Your Ideas Into Millions!” and we enjoyed a chat about his and my Kickstarter experiences and best practices around product feedback. Join us for the episode here.
My son Asher does a summer business each year, where he learns different business models, processes, terms, etc. related to running a business and understanding personal finance. This year he learned about investing in properties and selling of those properties. Since he’s quite savvy in Pokemon, that’s what we used for his summer investment business. […]
Each summer my children have a summer business. Entrepreneurship has changed my life, and I hope to help my children fall in love with it from an early age. This year is Finley’s first opportunity, and she was amazing the entire time. On Saturday, we spent most of the day baking cookies and packaging them, […]
This is Asher’s 4th summer business. This year, he’s shooting videos with Dad discussing what he’s learning while following the spending habits of 4 cows. All videos and project results will be posted here. He gets paid per video production. Launch Video: Asher shows us how he picked his first 5 stocks in a $50 […]
If you are new to Working from Home or attending school from home, here are few things you can avoid, in order to present yourself better, make a better experience for those on the other side of your camera, build trust, and build bonds. Bad Lighting: Knee Jerk: Sinking Head: Blank Walls: Nose Holes: Pale […]
What will I be when I grow up? I’m a visual person. Like some of you, I have a whiteboard in my office to sketch out ideas while working with remote colleagues. Like others of you, I have sticky notes on my wall and computer with ideas. And still like others, I have a ton […]
5 Stars: A Must Read The Manager’s Path is an excellent guide to how the world of Software Engineering works, whether you are in a startup, small business, or large corporation. It was recommended to be my by my good friend and colleague, Mitchell Potter, who is also an Engineering leader. Any Engineer or Engineering […]
My son, Asher is seven years old, and he has successfully completed his third summer business. His first two summer businesses were built on a little manufacturing and door-to-door sales, one with cookies and one with lemonade. The Business Model This year he took it a step further. He learned how a rent-to-own business works. […]
3.5 Stars I must admit, I love film and storytelling. If I were a mega millionaire and had no callings in life, I would watch films and TV shows all day. So when I came across Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller, I was intrigued. I have studied film at one of the top […]
2.5 Stars The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner lays out some good principles that every leader should know. Their core principal is that good leaders: Model the way Inspire a shared vision Challenge the process Enable others to act Encourage the heart These are good principals no doubt. My challenge with it however, is that the […]