By Jill Konrath Sales is a tough job. Everyone in the company knows how you’re doing – at all times. When you’re new, you see insurmountable hurdles in front of you. When you hit a slump, it’s visible to the entire world. People who are in marketing, IT or HR have no idea how challenging […]
I have a friend who is training for the New York Marathon. While I’m all for running and a regimen of aerobic exercise, I’m a little baffled by the men and women who run marathons. However, from my years of experience I know that the similarities between running a small business and running a marathon […]
Startups: The final frontier. This is the voyage of the economic system Free Enterprise. Its mission: to explore strange new opportunities, to seek out a new life for yourself and your family, and build new societies: to boldly go where no one has gone before. Dear Gene Roddenberry, if you’re looking down on me, please […]
A reporter once ask me, “Susan, are there people who would like to see you fail?”
“Absolutely. And I’m glad there are,” I replied
Surprised by my answer the reporter asked me to explain my answer. The explanation is simple.
“The time you could spend wondering ‘Why me?’ is the time you could have spent working your tail off to get better,” — Austin Hatch, two time plane crash survivor. If you’re a basketball fan, you’ve probably heard of Austin Hatch. He is a two-time plane crash survivor who is the only remaining survivor of […]