Perseverance

Leadership

3 Powerful Business Lessons I Learned from Competing in a Triathlon

Triathlons require you to do multiple activities back-to-back and pivot to something new without quitting -- much like your teams do every day at work. Here are some lessons I learned from competing in (and finishing) a triathlon.

Leadership

Never Underestimate the Power of Adversity: How Hardship Builds Resilience

Take the lessons you learn from your struggles and move forward from adversity to resilience.

Thought Leaders

The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get

How to actively cultivate lucky breaks through a consistent approach to entrepreneurship and hard work.

Thought Leaders

How Entrepreneurs Can Benefit From Valuable Feedback

When it comes to advice, it's very important to be able to listen, but more importantly still, to choose who exactly we listen to.

Thought Leaders

4 Ways to Level Up Your CEO Game

From embracing a missionary-over-mercenary sensibility to good reading habits, ways already capable leaders can ascend to the ranks of the remarkable.

Living

5 Reasons Why Every Entrepreneur Needs a Rejection Resume

A special document enables all professionals to embrace their trials and tribulations.

Leadership

The 3-Step Cycle That's Enabling Me to Redefine an Entire African Industry

Building a couture fashion house out of Nigeria isn't all hemlines and buttons; it's about self-reliance, empowerment and competition.

Leadership

Passion, Grit, Resilience: The Formula for Success

These three traits are crucial to business success.

Leadership

Why the Word "Fearless" Is Actually Keeping You From Achieving Your Goals

And why we need the very powerful and necessary emotion of fear.

Thought Leaders

Inventors Are Defined By Their Ability to Overcome Obstacles

Serious inventors -- inventors who repeatedly come up with great inventions -- don't stop.

Leadership

7 Lasting Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs, 10 Years After His Passing

It's been 10 years since the passing of iconic business legend and visionary Steve Jobs. Here's what I learned from him.

Branding

The Future Storyteller of Our World Is You

Life itself is such an incredible adventure. Those who live it successfully can inspire others to do the same by sharing their story.

Entrepreneurs

Time For A Reset: Musings On Entrepreneurship

"Life's challenges are sometimes a way for us to reset, and part of that reset is a moment of nothingness that sets in our minds, turning off the creative thought process, kind of like a computer. This happens to just about all photographers, film directors, writers, and creatives."

Thought Leaders

3 Innate Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs

Why embracing the qualities of an explorer, dreamer and pioneer is essential to innovative entrepreneurship.