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LEGACY CAN BE A SCARY WORD. It conjures up images of millionaires who want their ego to last beyond their death.
And nobody wants to think about death.
So I confess that I bring up the concept with just a little trepidation.
But let’s look at it this way in regards to your business: Do you want your company to have an impact which lasts beyond your own involvement? Read the rest of this entry »
STARTING UP A BUSINESS can be a real challenge.
Let me revise that.
For most people, we struggle with what it takes. But I met a guy this week who’s started up so many ventures that it boggles the mind. And many, if not most, were quite successful.
He’s that “serial entrepreneur” that we tend to laud and admire.
LILLY SORENSEN owns the local franchise of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? You may have seen their trucks driving around, but don’t know the great company which they represent.
I sure didn’t.
Lilly started her journey back in Ann Arbor, when she was looking for a job and joined up as a driver for the company. Despite their pleas to keep her on, she ended up moving out here to Colorado to start a new life.
But the universe can be a surprising place.
“WHAT GETS MEASURED GETS DONE.”
This quote has been attributed to a lot of people, so maybe its origin is lost in the mists of time.
No matter. What’s important is that it contains a grain of truth.
JUST TODAY I was speaking with a business leader who has some pieces of their purpose and mission, but not the whole thing.
This is more common than you’d think.
Here’s what it might look like. You started your business five years ago, with some thoughts about where it might go: Read the rest of this entry »
WHEN YOU LIGHT SOMEONE ELSE’S CANDLE, your own flame is not diminished.
How incredibly unusual is that? If I give you some of my money, I no longer have it. When I give you my food, I can’t eat it myself.
We’ve built an entire world economy on the beliefs of scarcity, which makes supply and demand powerful forces.
Not everything is that way.
JASON BRABSON’S HEART ACHES for the injustice he’s seen.
His most recent career has been as a mobility cab driver, and he’s directly seen how cruel transportation can be for the disabled and elderly. Public options aren’t great in this town, and private companies don’t treat their passengers well at all.
So Jason’s fixing it.
TODAY I’M HEADED TO DENVER for the Small Giants Summit. This is a fantastic opportunity to interact with other business leaders who thoughtfully reject the pressure to take their companies public.
We make a lot of assumptions in our culture that bigger is better and that growth is even mandatory for survival. The Small Giants Community shows us that you can have much more impact as a privately held company, and there’s an appropriate size for a business at which it is most effective.
GRETCHEN HOLLAND HAS A DREAM. And it’s not really about recovering a favorite childhood treat from growing up in Maryland eating snowballs.
It’s really about helping kids with disabilities to have real work over the summer, to do great work and serve customers.
And if you can achieve that while delivering something refreshing on a hot day, how fantastic!
THE US SPACE PROGRAM was actually conceived in 1960 under Eisenhower, but John F Kennedy really launched it in a speech on May 25, 1961:
“… I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”
Having grown up during this time, the Space Race became a powerful foundation for how I viewed the world.
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