Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Test drive: Mercedes AMG GTS

Test drive: Mercedes AMG GTS

My friends at Mercedes recently loaned me a Mercedes AMG to test drive, and I’d like to share my favorite pictures and thoughts with you. I hate to admit this, but I’m not sure I’m man enough for this car. It is a fantastic 503-horsepower engine (built by Sven Seyfried) with two seats strapped to the back–I mean this in only the most positive way! Think of it as a Zdeno Charo slapshot or a LeBron James dunk. It can hold a hockey bag–which is essential to me, and I
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Stress reduction for the INFP: Your inner life is your hidden strength.

This live, online course runs Nov. 2 – Nov. 5 at 8pm ET. The cost of the course is $195.  Sign up now! My editor is an INFP. He is crazy, but he doesn’t know he’s crazy. The first crazy thing he did was email me out of the blue and ask if he could be my editor. This is what he wrote, “I have no experience editing but I love your writing and the only way I can figure out how to be able to read more of it is to be your editor.” Maybe he didn’t write that exactl
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Why Corporate Entrepreneurs are Extraordinary – the Rebel Alliance

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. The biggest surprise for me was getting schooled on how extremely difficult it is to be an innovator inside a company of executors. —– What Have We Lost? I’ve been working with Richard, a mid-level executive in a large federal agency facing increasing external disruption (technology shifts, new competitors, asymmetric warfare, etc.). Several pockets of inn
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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. Listen to the full interview by downloading it from SoundCloud here.  (And download any of the past shows here .) (Read my interviews with Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla in a separate
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Starbucks get back to its roots in new campaign

October 1st, 2014 Howard Schultz’s vision for Starbucks when he joined the coffee chain in 1983, was for it to be a place for conversation and a sense of community, a “third place” between work and home. Over the years, Starbucks marketing has gotten away highlighting this higher purpose. However, Starbucks just released a terrific new web video entitled “Meet Me at Starbucks” that gets back to this heritage. The video was shot in Starbucks stores in 28 countries
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Entrepreneurs Are Everywhere Show No. 1: Richard Witten and Kathryn Minshew

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes the best lessons are the most painful. Resilience – the ability to bounce back from adversity – is one of the key attributes of entrepreneurs and was the focus of my first weekly radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere, on Sirius XM Radio Channel 111. Richard Witten, special advisor on entrepreneurship to the President of Columbia University; and Kathryn Minshew, co-founder of the popular onl
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