Available, when you think of CEOs, or when you think of Founders, or Pastors or anything like that, the first word you think of after that normally is not ‘availability.’ That is probably the antonym of a lot of those titles, however, in everything I do, every business I own, every book I write, every…
Disrupting an industry is a positive when you solve real-life problems. It’s not so positive when you create more problems than solutions and negatively impact people’s quality of life. Amazon and Walmart are two great examples of companies that financial institutions and governments have allowed to grow to such levels that they challenge the existence…
First, how and where we come to life is not our choice but being respected for who we are is our right. Diversity makes our world richer and more beautiful. Second, self-respect begins with respecting others. As a part of our series about business leaders who are shaking things up in their industry, I had…
Different is better than better— This is advice I got from one of our investors (and one of the most inspiring people I have met), Jeff Swartz, the former CEO and owner of Timberland. Ori Ben Ner is the CEO of SupPlant, an AgTech world leader in the field of autonomous irrigation systems and precision farming…
Don’t underestimate someone’s willingness to engage so long as you make the effort to connect. Now that it is so easy to reach so many people I feel too many of us play the statistics and think in funnels. To get one customer you get an ad in front of a hundred/thousand. There have been a…
The second piece of advice is to take rejection less personally and to see it as redirection. Especially when you’re passionate about something, it’s hard to separate the work from yourself or not be dismayed when an opportunity doesn’t pan out. What I’ve noticed, though, is that rejection often opens up a new opportunity or…
“There is a season for everything”: A lot of people can relate to the saying “bloom where you are planted” — and I used to be one of them until I realized the nature of that saying as I had understood it, implied that I was constantly expecting myself to be in a state of blooming. Look…
“Good is good enough” — Building a business should not be about perfection as you’ll have to learn from the feedback your users give you, which more than likely means that you’ll have to change your product. When I first launched my HR product, I waited as long as I could to make sure the software was…
Lastly, have the courage to follow your heart — I don’t know if this advice was given to me in a literal sense, but it was more something that I’ve absorbed from all of the great leaders of the companies I’ve worked for. A majority of Americans spend most of their life working in some capacity. As…
You know your sun sign, but do you know whether that sign is fixed, mutable, or cardinal? Each zodiac sign falls under one of those three categories, with Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn being the four cardinal signs. Here’s what it means to be cardinal and why it matters, according to the AstroTwins. The cardinal…
