The list of successful businesspeople without MBAs is long, and cited often enough to be a cliché. Folks like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Sam Walton, and Anita Roddick don’t have MBAs, and have done quite well for themselves as CEOs of large companies....
How do you tell the story of your life? Turns out a big part of your personality are the snapshots of experiences you assemble and re-assemble of your past and future. Of course, that means that you can curate and shape those things, refine them based on what works...
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion famously wrote in “The White Album.” In many ways, Didion was right: Stories may not seem like a basic survival need, but our brains naturally tell stories as a way to give structure and meaning to our lives....
For some of Denise Shull’s clients, being in a slump might mean losing millions of dollars of other people’s money. Shull is the founder of the ReThink Group, a performance coaching group that specializes in clients on Wall Street. She’s also one of...
Plain and simple, these people say, Wall Street is too greedy. To me, though, that analysis rings false. It’s hollow, and far too simplistic. If we live in a world where scientists have learned to split the atom, medical researchers are designing drugs that alter our...
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