Category Archives: Leadership

"Goals are the Plotline to our Lives": More on Athletics as Sources of Inspiration

“Climbing is simple. Ascent is an ideal. Doing becomes understanding. I think of route names as story titles: rich, fleeting and individual. We tell these stories over our modern-day campfires – blogs, Web sites, books and catalogs – in equal … Continue reading

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On Leadership through Leadership

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Quote Du Jour

I love this quote…it is describes startup-ing and also reminds me of the modern day movie Gladiator. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of … Continue reading

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The Impact of Goals

These days, most of my riding buddies are a little burnt out on racing. After 4 or 5 years of spending a summer doing a race every other weekend or so, most of us have decided that this summer we … Continue reading

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Warren Buffet Fan Club

A student transcribed a recent Buffet talk, and it’s well worth reading, even by Buffet standards.

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Wisdom of the Day #2

Success is driven by vision and conviction and not by following directions. – Furqan Nazeeri, in summarizing what he learned about a characteristic of successful CEO’s.

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It's a Marathon, not a Sprint

Contrary to our society’s romanticized vision of an entrepreneur’s life, success takes a long time to come (if it ever does). While there are famous counter-examples, in the overwhelming number of cases, success takes years and even decades of hard … Continue reading

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