Entrepreneurship

Teams, Leadership, and Management

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Management is a tricky responsibility. Erica Burnett wrote to me: “There are only two ways in which companies achieve greatness: by tyranny and by teamwork. The former won’t keep the valuable people around for too long — they’ll move on to a better opportunity. But the latter will ensure that people invest themselves in your [...]

BIL 2009: Toms Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

February 7th and 8th I was in Long Beach for the BIL Conference. If you’ve never heard of BIL, it’s a free, open event held alongside TED. If you’ve never heard of TED, it stands for “Technology, Entertainment, and Design,” is very exclusive, very expensive, and brings in some incredibly intelligent people. Anyway, BIL is [...]