A Painful Lesson on the Importance of Intellectual Honesty

A Painful Lesson on the Importance of Intellectual Honesty

A Painful Lesson on the Importance of Intellectual Honesty A few months ago, early in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes and her alleged fraud with her startup, Theranos, columnist Andy Kessler wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Failure is Always an...
Gratitude: Good news, bad news – who knows

Gratitude: Good news, bad news – who knows

Gratitude: Good news, bad news – who knows After nearly two years of coping with the isolation required by a worldwide pandemic, we are finally able to spend time with people again. Most of us are truly grateful for much of what we took for granted just a few short...
Exploring Your Entrepreneurial Competencies

Exploring Your Entrepreneurial Competencies

I have to admit that I love taking personal development tests and assessments.  As you may know, if you follow my blog and other work, I am a big fan of reflection as an instrument for personal growth.  Like meditation and journaling and other self-development tools,...
Creative Destruction

Creative Destruction

With the death of Steve Jobs a few years ago, our world experienced the passing of arguably the most influential innovator of our time. As an entrepreneur he was driven to impact the world and as such he engaged in the very core of entrepreneurship – creative...
Starting

Starting

Tomorrow I will welcome a brand new cohort of students into the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship program at the University of Tampa. Every fall and spring, I have the opportunity to teach the first class in the program, ENT 610 Preparing for the Entrepreneurial...
Fear of Failure

Fear of Failure

A few weeks ago, I announced the pre-sale of my new book See, Do, Repeat: The Practice of Entrepreneurship, which will be available in early September, 2021.  Writing this book over the past year has been fun and a great learning experience, but it has also been...
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