We are challenging the social construction of entrepreneurialism - a system that is minting chaos.  Going it alone as small business owners has given rise to enormous personal tolls. Doesn’t it make sense if we want better results, to build a better system?  Isn’t that what entrepreneurship is all about? Seeing a problem and fixing or improving it? ( I hear the coaches whispering, NO! Don’t call it [...]

Image via Wikipedia In reading Impossible Thinking published by the Wharton School, their business model of change is neither a blind leap nor in the dark but rather a measured shift -  parallel paths of two existing ideas followed purposefully through a fog of exploration until one path outpaces the other and allows you to [...]

Image via Wikipedia When you look at the media empire of Oprah, like her or not, the leadership of Obama, the purpose of Kashi, the popularity Yoga & why charity is prized – it’s all about leading with your heart. Companies that are built on purpose began with ideas generated from love, concern and innovation.   [...]

When I was writing pithy, one star screenplays, I was fastidious about capturing every original thought I had on pads of paper by the bed, in my purse, the car, on used cocktail napkins, dog-eared pages, old envelopes, scraps and matchbooks. (God forbid I should forget these forgettable strokes of genius.) During that decade I [...]

Image via Wikipedia Consider that the opposite of operating on all cylinders is operating on half cylinders. No cylinders is a decision, all cylinders is a decision, but half cylinders is a default setting. When you’re operating on half cylinders it is a rationalization…a whatever zone where apathy is the opposite of energy. Sometimes half [...]

Image via Wikipedia Cards and stationery went into production. Every decision was times 500. At the onset of the process I said to my designers, anything BUT pink. But there it was, a proof of the cards in a honking shade of magenta. It wasn’t on my radar. The designers just did their thing. They [...]