I looked at the executive’s desk and noticed something weird. A small framed picture sat alone on her desk with a sign in it that said “Eat Lunch.” “Why do you have a sign that says ‘Eat Lunch’?” I asked. “Because I never eat lunch,” she replied. “Why not?” I asked. “Too busy. My job is all-consuming. If I am ever able to eat lunch, I’ll know that I got my life back. In the meantime, I just eat one of these snack bars between meetings,” she said as she showed me a pathetic half-eaten tan bar in a wrapper. She shrugged with a gesture that said, “What else am I supposed to do?” [Continue »]

I have five practical ways to learn something new in business, based on having interviewed and advised over a thousand business leaders. Some of those leaders went from being dirt poor to becoming self-made billionaires.

How do they do it?

Is it just that they are so much smarter, or harder working than the rest of us? Or maybe it was just good luck? No. [Continue »]