One of the secrets of making progress in business and life is to look for good examples wherever you find them and learn from them.
Not everything worthwhile and useful comes from books, manuals, seminars, podcasts and articles.
Sometimes you …
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Focus – and strike it rich
By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Internet history, Marketing insight, Media/Tech history, On the road, Videos to Watch
Amazing video from the System Club archive.
What can you learn from this?
Lesson #1: Invest in Facebook when it’s just some kids coding in a rented house in Palo Alto.
But it you can’t do that, then what?…
Jack Ma – richest man in China – shares his vision in his tiny living room 15 year ago
By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Internet history, Internet insight, Marketing Tools, Media/Tech history, News, Videos to Watch
Jack Ma paints the vision for his team – 15 years ago
Two minutes and 10 seconds of leadership in action.
“Today, we are all here to discuss what we should do in the next five to ten years…”
Chinese …
When you reach the top, you’ll find Marty Edelston there
By Ken McCarthy in Business advice, inspiration, Marketing insight, Media/Tech history, Videos to Watch
He ramped up a ‘crazy’ business idea from his kitchen table to a $100 million a year newsletter business in just ten years…without the benefit of the Internet.
How Marty Edelston built a business to last and made friends …
What Adam Smith really said
Many people think Adam Smith, author of “The Wealth of Nations,” gave his blanket endorsement to any activity as long as it makes money in the free market.
Not so at all.
“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, …
The essence of crowdfunding – Steve Jobs (1980)
– Ken McCarthy
P.S. For over 25 years I’ve been sharing the simple but powerful things that matter in business with my clients.
If you’d like direction for your business that will work today, tomorrow and twenty years from now, …