Bill Poston is an entrepreneur, business advisor, investor, philanthropist, educator, and adventurer.
Bill Poston is an entrepreneur, business advisor, investor, philanthropist, educator, and adventurer.
Then along comes an article in the latest issue of Strategy + Business by Jennifer Deal of the Center for Creative Leadership titled “Five Millennial Myths”. It lends my position some weight using empirical research into the behaviors and beliefs of those in the millennial generation.
Why would someone remember fondly the day they went fishing in 28 degree weather with a broken hand and diarrhea? Well, we caught a bunch of fish and had a lot of fun. I remember being very happy.
The students in this spring’s Housley Principled Leadership Program are an amazing group. Spending four hours with them each Friday is invigorating and it renews my sense of purpose heading into the weekend. We are off for a couple of weeks for spring break (Remember those? Maybe not.)
The first star appeared well before sundown. A big, bright mama star with a toddler tight at her heels. Two stars and a washed out light blue sky that faded toward the horizon to almost white.
A couple of decades ago I started my very first consulting assignment at a large manufacturing company. The firm’s innovation-driven glory years in the 70s were distant memory by the time I arrived. The business advantages the company had previously enjoyed were gone, but the people were not.
It is always sunny in Mike Friedman’s world – even on a cloudy day. My relationship with him has come full circle. Mike’s extended interview with Kalypso was a three-day ski trip in Beaver Creek.
This was a big weekend for milestone birthdays. Friday night we celebrated Geoff Comstock’s fiftieth with a rockin’ house party. Having attended his twenty-first birthday party some years ago I should be in a good position to compare and contrast the events.
Canadian heli-skiing is for expert skiers – or those that have a natural deficiency of fear or sense…I survived six days of it with a group of five non-expert skiers aged 45 to 70.
