I came across this blog from my good friend Mario. As I read through it i came across this post/chapter. Any Entrepreneur that wants to succeed should take a glance. Really anybody that wants to be a leader should read it. Here is a link to the article.
Cheers,
What's luck got to do with it?
I was walking over the Farmer Market Saturday morning and casually recapping the week in my head. I was fortunate to meet a pretty good group of students from the University of Montana Business School, Yes…The Harvard of the West. The class is something that is relatively new as it’s only in its third year. The class comes out to the Portland and Seattle and meets with various different businesses that have alumni from the University working for them or owns them. The class is basically one big networking event for the students to get insights into what it takes to work for of these companies (2 of them are on the100 best companies to work for list). As I was headed over to the market I got to thinking about luck…to be more specific how much luck really had to do with your success. Read more…
I’ve been bouncing around a few ideas on topics over the past few days, but I’ve yet to settle on any one idea. Interestingly enough as i was reading the NY Times this morning over my usual cup of coffee and listing to tunes from my iPod i came across two articles that are really interesting to read and happen to correlate to a few topics I’ve been thinking of.
The first article is the leading story on the business section Read more…
Since I blew up the motherboard on my laptop this past week I haven’t been able to keep up on the news as much as I’d like…so I’ve spent the better part of Sunday catching up on things. I stumbled across this article on NYTimes.com. I’ll try and give you the readers digest version. Harley Davidson, the Motorcycle manufacturer, has fallen on tough times for a number of reasons. The article is primarily financial driven to show how and why the company is struggling. The economy is one of the primary ones…obviously. However, the struggles have brought to light something far more long term and thus detrimental to the Harley brand…not keeping up with the consumer. Read more…
First off let me just say that I haven’t blogged nearly as much as I would like to. My new position is keeping me even busier than I had anticipated…but that’s probably a good thing.
As I twittered earlier in the week, I got the idea to do a post about re-branding…here is how this all came about. Read more…