Video Exponentially Magnifies Your Ability to Communicate
Warren Buffett’s offer to a class of business students at Columbia University was pretty compelling: “Right now, I would pay $100,000 for 10 percent of the future [..]
Zuckerberg’s On-Camera Crash Course
After Mark Zuckerberg’s two-day hearing on Capitol Hill, Facebook shares jumped more than 5 percent–over $4 BILLION. What happened prior to the hearings? “Facebook h[..]
Big Data and Ethics
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Big Data and Ethics conference, a half-day program featuring four expert speakers and a Q&A/panel discussion sponsored by Cor[..]
Is Your Glass Half-Full?
Is there a science to success? It seems so, but it also seems as though much of what we’ve been taught about success is wrong. Something as simple as being a pessimist vs an[..]
Are you a 98-Pound Weakling?
Does vulnerability equal weakness? The answer is a resounding no. I shared Brene Brown’s TED Talk about vulnerability with my class of graduate-level students at Baruch Co[..]
Breakfast of Champions
A good strategy is nothing without a good culture. Companies that maintain a culture of diminishing people, putting them down, institutionalizing sexism or harassment, or prot[..]
How will you be remembered?
The concept of resume values vs. eulogy values comes from David Brooks’ 2015 book, The Road to Character. If you’re like me, perhaps you contemplate your career in terms o[..]
Leadership in Focus is #17 on Success Magazine’s Best Books of 2017 List
Success Magazine ranked 72 of 2017’s Best Books to Make You Successful with Tribe CEO/Creative Director Vern Oakley’s book Leadership in Focus coming in at #17. It[..]
Wartime CEO vs. Peacetime CEO
What’s the difference between a Wartime CEO and a Peacetime CEO? This is a concept that I learned from Ben Horowitz’s great book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things. It[..]