For much of his life, Buffett struggled with a crippling fear of public speaking. “I would throw up,” he told biographer Alice Schroeder in The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. “In fact, I arranged my life so I never...
These are the behaviors that you want to eliminate from your repertoire. When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70...
Entrepreneurship is a way of life that offers unlimited possibilities to those who truly believe in it and live by it. But at the same time, entrepreneurship is a way of life that can totally alter the course of your life if misunderstood. Entrepreneurship is...
When I ask business owners who their target market is, many tend to respond with “everyone”. The translation is no one. In their zeal to acquire as many customers as possible, many business owners try to serve the widest market possible. This is a huge...
When you’re the CEO of a large organization—or even a small one—your greatest responsibility is to recognize whether it requires a major change in direction. Indeed, no bold new course of action can be launched without your say-so. Yet your power and privilege leave...
For eight months in 1998 and 1999, I woke every morning in search of chimpanzee pee. That pee held the key to the chimps’ testosterone levels, and I helped to catch it. To do this, I would hike through the rainforest to the trees in which the chimpanzees had built...
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