Screaming at Change
Workers in many industries have been disrupted and disintermediated due to technological advances over the centuries.The most recent, and perhaps unusual example of this is the writer’s strike that has most of us watching reruns. NYU Professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway offers a terrific analysis of what’s really going on with this strike. Some strikes […]
Map the Gap
The pandemic may be over but we’re not going back to business as usual. To varying degrees the hybrid workforce is here to stay. Are you ready to lead and manage in this new world? Two of Vistage’s best speakers, strategist Marc Emmer and recruiting expert Kathleen Quinn Votaw have two offerings to help you get an edge […]
A Personal Recommendation
Most of what has been offered here is about what to do. If I may add my own advice, most of our decisions will be driven, consciously or otherwise by what we believe and how we respond to what life presents us. To that end, I wish someone had made me read psychiatrist Dr. Viktor Frankl’s masterpiece, “Man’s Search […]
Are You Floating or Swimming?
Hunter S. Thompson That’s the question that the late journalist Hunter S. Thompson once mused about in a letter to a friend who was asking Thompson’s advice about what goal to purse in life. Thompson, only 22, when he penned this letter in 1958, offered some advice worthy of a commencement speech itself in considering the ordering […]
The Importance of Making Your Bed
A few years ago, retired Navy Seal and Admiral William McRaven offered grads at the University of Texas at Austin some advice on changing the world, including not underestimating the number of people whose lives will be affected by theirs…and the importance of starting every day by making your bed properly (no kidding). Click here for the video and transcript of the […]
The Algebra of Happiness
By Scott Galloway This great interview is NYU Marketing Professor and serial entrepreneur Scott Galloway’s advice about creating a good life: The Algebra of Happiness. You’ll have a lot of fun with his witty, edgy, and hilarious remarks. Parents and kids should watch this together. (Warning, Dr. Galloway’s language can be a bit salty). Also, if […]
What to Unlearn After Graduation
By Suzy WelchNYU Business School ProfessorAnd former editor Harvard Business Review Not everything learned in the warm cocoon of the academy is helpful and can even backfire in the real world. In this two-minute video, Ms. Welch identifies five lessons graduating seniors must UNLEARN immediately after college to be successful. Helpful advice before the first day on […]
Will You be Lucky or Smart?
This 12 minute 2012 Commencement Address at Princeton is one of my favorites. Author Michael Lewis warns his audience not to overestimate their competence, or underestimate the role of luck, in their lives…and by way of illustration relates the chance encounter at a dinner party that launched his own remarkable career, and the moral obligation to share a little […]
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
From the TED Site: “Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success.” Spend […]
Advice I Wish I’d Been Given
It may strike some as odd that a college dropout would be asked to give commencement speeches…unless that dropout is Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Mr. Gates dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft in the mid 1970’s. As a result, he never got to hear the commencement speech he would have enjoyed had he completed […]
