by Motivated Magazine | Sep 22, 2010 | Communicate
Six weeks into his new job at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer was feeling a pang of uncertainty and began to question his decision to join his former Harvard classmate, Bill Gates, at the fledgling startup. According to Ballmer’s recollection, Gates took him to dinner...
by Motivated Magazine | Sep 22, 2010 | Communicate
Is it better like this? … or better like that? A? … or B? Which is clearer? One… or two?” Anyone without perfect vision has heard these questions before at the optometrist. And when the publisher of MOTIVATED asked me to write an article about vision, I doubt...
by Motivated Magazine | Sep 22, 2010 | Lead
I’ve never accomplished anything in my life on my own, so everything you read in this article is how other people have made me look good. This article is about the value of ordinary people who are willing to commit to something they believe in and work hard to obtain...
by Motivated Magazine | Sep 17, 2010 | Reflect
Most of us don’t have our dreams handed to us on a silver platter by a man dressed in black. –But, I did. On the cusp of turning forty, I was presented with my dream, perfectly packaged and ready to open. Unfortunately, I needed to walk through fear and face my worst...
by Motivated Magazine | Sep 17, 2010 | Lead
Leadership is a mysterious and elusive concept. What we read as history is really the creation of myths. From an ordinary person, society creates a Napoleon, or Gandhi, a Martin Luther King or Joan of Arc, someone who acquires mythic status as a shaper of destiny. We...
