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Curiosity and its business translation, “innovation”, are within all of us. They often show when we embark on a new job or career.   Sadly, they also often wither away as the days, weeks, months and years grind on.  The purpose of this article is to give you three simple principles for reigniting the spirit [...]

People often ask me how I managed to take the idea for Build-A-Bear Workshop¨ and create the  successful brand that it is today. I tell them that it started when I simply allowed myself to dream. I have always been a dreamer, and in 1971 when I graduated from University of Georgia, that dream was [...]

In poker, to win big, you play big, or at least that’s always been my motto. I’ve been playing the game  casually since I was four-years-old and it never fails to bring out the risk-taking side of me. Recently, I found myself sitting at a dollar poker table in a casino, playing Texas Hold ‘Em. [...]

I spend a great deal of my life taking risks. As the host of the Angry Planet TV series, I often find myself chasing after tornadoes, driving into the eye of land-falling hurricanes, or climbing into the crater of an exploding volcano. I’ve dove with sharks, swam with thousands of piranhas, and taken a small inflatable [...]

“Work/life balance.”  Yes, it’s a phrase we hear often.  But if you want the truth, I don’t think it really exists – at least not in the way most “experts” say it does. I, like most people, have never been able to balance the scales of work and life on a day-to-day basis. But I [...]