Category Archives: Models

Video: What an entrepreneurship course can deliver, part 3

on May 10, 2016 in Education, Entrepreneurship, Models, Relationships

Here is an interview with a student who took my online entrepreneurship course, Nikita, who is an undergraduate at NYU, now working with a team of medical engineers on a medical device she created. Reach your potential in business and life. My courses don’t take time from the rest of life. You work with people in your life that you care about on projects that you care about without distracting[…] Keep reading →

Video: What a leadership course can deliver, part 4

on May 3, 2016 in Education, Entrepreneurship, Exercises, Leadership, Models

Here is an interview with a student who took my online leadership course, Chris, a born salesman and entrepreneur. Hear how the leadership course increased his business while calming his life. Reach your potential in business and life. My courses don’t take time from the rest of life. You work with people in your life that you care about on projects that you care about without distracting from the rest[…] Keep reading →

Video: What an entrepreneurship course can deliver, part 2

on April 25, 2016 in Education, Entrepreneurship, Models, Relationships

Here is an interview with a student who took my online entrepreneurship course, RJ, who is an undergraduate at NYU. Reach your potential in business and life. My courses don’t take time from the rest of life. You work with people in your life that you care about on projects that you care about without distracting from the rest of your work and life. Learn more about the course and[…] Keep reading →

Video: What a leadership course can deliver, part 2

on April 21, 2016 in Education, Exercises, Leadership, Models, Stories

Here is an interview with a student who is taking my online leadership course, Ellen, who is an entrepreneur who recently sold her latest business. As you’ll see, she is also finding that the lessons she’s learning apply to other deeply challenging areas in life.: Reach your potential in business and life. My courses don’t take time from the rest of life. You work with people in your life that[…] Keep reading →

Video: What a leadership course can deliver, part 1

on April 18, 2016 in Education, Exercises, Leadership, Models

Here is an interview with a student who took my online leadership course, Bethany, who is an Associate Partner at IBM and has an MBA from Columbia Business School: Reach your potential in business and life. My courses don’t take time from the rest of life. You work with people in your life that you care about on projects that you care about without distracting from the rest of your[…] Keep reading →

“Eating healthy is expensive and takes too much time” is wrong

on April 13, 2016 in Fitness, Models, Nature, Perception

I just read yet another post of someone saying eating healthy takes more time and money. I can’t believe how wrong that view is, at least by my experience. Living in New York City means I have access to some of the best restaurants in the world. I can afford to eat at them. Yet my past year’s cooking has disillusioned me in them. I find them disappointing. Their food[…] Keep reading →

Hustling

on April 9, 2016 in Education, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Models, Stories, Visualization

What do you do when they cancel your flight? In the late 70s, a man and his fiancée were visiting the Caribbean. They found themselves stranded in an airport when their airline canceled their flight to Puerto Rico. The man was disappointed, but based on his experience running a record business that he had founded, he took initiative to solve the problem. Noticing other people from the same flight were[…] Keep reading →

“Resilience: What The New York Times, New Yorker and Most of Academia Got Wrong” (My Inc. story)

on April 1, 2016 in Entrepreneurship, Inc.com, Leadership, Models, Perception

My latest Inc.com story “Resilience: What The New York Times, New Yorker and Most of Academia Got Wrong” begins Resilience: What The New York Times, New Yorker, and Most of Academia Got Wrong If you want to be resilient, not just know about resilience, research and the media won’t help you. [the story starts with a picture of an athlete covered in mud, struggling to make it] You’re covered in[…] Keep reading →

I’ve been catching up my whole life

on March 29, 2016 in Choosing/Decision-Making, Education, Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Models, Perception, Relationships

School Doing a gratitude exercise recently, writing my undergraduate advisor who helped me figure out how to major in physics starting my second semester junior year. Physics is intense so most of my classmates were younger, having known their major since high school. So academically, I was catching up with classmates from when I chose my major. I just finished the major in my last semester and got into Penn[…] Keep reading →

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