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Karen Mangia—Author of Success with Less
Early in her career, Karen Mangia followed a very conventional formula for success—say yes to everything, deliver with excellence, and never let them see you sweat. It worked wonderfully for a while, until it didn’t. At the age of 33, Karen faced an undiagnosed...
Laura Vanderkam, Author of Juliet’s School of Possibilities
Laura Vanderkam helps people spend more time on what matters, and less on what doesn’t.She is the bestselling author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast and Off The Clock, among others. Her 2016 TED talk, "How to Gain Control of Your...
Kevin A. Knight Author of Connections in the Raw: Musings of a Barefoot Runner
Look up the term Renaissance man in the dictionary, and I’m sure you will see a picture of Kevin A Knight. He started his own company and serves as an independent marketing research consultant to many leading global corporations. He’s also an avid runner...
Mike’s Recent Musings
Something to Believe in (Linus 3:16)
I had a moment of inspiration while listening to a Poison song on my flight from Austin to San Francisco this morning. In my mind’s eye, I see you scratching your head and raising your eyebrow right now—most of you, that is, except my friend Tara D’Onofrio...
The Show Must Go On
When I was in high school, I got into Queen—I mean really into Queen (I had a copy of A Night at the Opera well before Wayne's World re-popularized Bohemian Rhapsody). While I loved Freddie’ Mercury’s vocals, it was guitarist Brian May who hooked me. ...
Appeasing the puppet masters of my mind
I have a lot of quirky characteristics but perhaps the quirkiest of the bunch is the fact that I don’t like it when people buy gifts for me. It’s not that I can’t appreciate the kindness of the gesture, that I feel unworthy of the gift, or that I...