Industry Voices

I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, the exchanges there often display considerable depth, thoughtful engagement, civil discourse, and a genuine sense of community. Those interactions leave me hopeful that the future of business is one characterized by curiosity, collaboration, and intellectual integrity, that more …

In my days, I wake up, get my 6-year-old ready for school, take him to school and then hit the gym (finally after more than 10 years away). Settle down to my work after that, which is to talk to many people and help them to get what they want …

Very simple: Wride down my list of things to do BY HAND in my favorite notebook. Writing by hand is an essential and very effective tool because: 1) You don’t need much but a pen and paper to start. 2) Writing improves memory; we learn better when working with new …

I would love to meet Bill Gates and ask him what was his strategy to go from one of the most hated men in the world (everyone didn’t like Microsoft/Gates at one time), to one of the best known/liked entrepreneur’s who decided to give away most of his wealth? I …

I’d like to think I’m thrifty but it’s all relative. I used to be a rampant consumer – clothes, shoes, other random things, gifts, going out, partying every week. That’s where my extravagance and excess was focused! In monetary terms nowadays, it’s probably investing in the highest quality – clean, …

I would like to continue working on helping to solve poverty in the developing world. I see here in Thailand and neighboring countries there are still many many poor people, living in the most basic of ways in their villages. Key is to empower the women, help them and help …

The perfect work environment is the one that can support and develop your values, strengths, passions, creativity, and overall wellbeing. An environment that allows you to grow, be yourself, and add value!

I outsource wherever I am able to. Anything that is not in my unique capabilities, I outsource to others. It just makes good sense. If you value your time at say $100 USD an hour (200K or so a year), doing admin tasks that can be handled by a Virtual …

1) Poverty in South East Asia – people are dying of hunger daily in countries like Thailand and Vietnam and I wish to help them 2) Tortoises – my spirit animal – would probably set up a farm or sponsor one just to watch it grow old with me

I am not a huge Podcast fan…the ones I do listen to include: Andrew Stotz’s My Worst Investment Ever. Great to listen to other people sharing with Andrew their investing mistakes, so we can all avoid making those. I was on the podcast maybe 2 years ago sharing my worst…it …