Category Archives: Business
Congrats to Lijun Jiang
I had the pleasure of working with Lijun in Nigeria 5 summers ago at Access Bank. It’s great to see she recently won the 2nd annual Excellence in Business Leadership Award. Congrats! Excellence in Business Leadership Award Ceremony recap At a ceremony at Saïd Business School on 19 May, Dean Colin Mayer formally announced that [...]
Next Read: Do The Work by Steven Pressfield
I just finished The War of Art and HIGHLY recommend it. If you want to create something (art, books, a business, music, anything) and haven’t then you need to pick it up. Here’s what Publishers Weekly said about it: Novelist Steven Pressfield (The Legend of Bagger Vance; Gates of Fire) goes self-help in The War [...]
Denver is 8th in Small Business Vitality
Denver finds itself 8th out of 100 large US cities on their ability to create and develop small businesses by The Business Journals. Denver falls behind Austin, Oklahoma City, Charleston, S.C., Charlotte, Seattle, Tulsa and Raleigh. Washington and NYC are in the 9th and 10th spots. I’m not really shocked. I feel like there is [...]
TEDx Mile High Session II Highlights
A few highlights from session II: Bernard Amadei gave an assignment: each one has a gift, a mission statement. Write down your mission statement. Feel free to change it but write down your mission statement. The day you write it down and you walk the talk then fasten your seatbelt. John Hickenlooper gave one inspired [...]
TEDx Mile High Session I Highlights
A few highlights from the first session at Tedx Mile High. JeremyDuhon defined inspired citizens as individuals that not only have great ideas but act on them. His plea: take one action. Sallyaranney asked us “how many of you have thought about your place in history?” The 77 yr old PaulPolak shared about how to [...]
Expectations? Who has Expectations?
Every month I have a reminder set in my calendar to do a monthly plan. The goal is to take some time to think about the next 30 days. A few months ago I came across a website CreativeChoices.net. Carolyn Foster publishes a monthly coaching tip and writing exercise. I decided to start reviewing her [...]
