“Shared By Carla” I started to show textbook signs of becoming an entrepreneur just after high school. I was the second youngest in a large family. All of my older brothers and sisters had jobs; all my friends were working, or going off to college. It seemed college was the next logical step for …
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The One-Minute Graduation Speech
“Shared By Carla” I’ve given lots of commencement addresses and, despite the silly hat, it’s a head-swelling experience to tell a captive crowd how they should live their lives. The problem is, speakers are to graduations what turkeys are to Thanksgiving, except people are much more interested in a turkey on a platter than …
Pounding In and Pulling Out Nails
“Shared By Carla” When my daughter was confronted with the fact that she had really hurt another child with a mean comment, she cried and immediately wanted to apologize. That was a good thing, but I wanted her to know an apology can’t always make things better. So I told her the parable of …
Who’s Driving Your Bus?
“Share by Carla” If we think about our own lives as being a journey on a bus, surrounded by a great variety of people, all with particular positions on our bus that relate to where they fit into our lives. Some are right there next to us; some behind us; some in front of us… …
Bob Proctor Shares His Secrets
Shared by Carla: Bob Proctor Shares His Secrets If I had to pick one thing that allowed me to go from pumping gas in a service station to spending 50 years founding, formulating and being chairman of a number of companies that operate globally in over 100 different countries I would have to attribute it …