Listening to Feedback from your Business
Before we get into the article, I want to point out that yesterday we introduced a brand new program! It’s for folks who have progressed a bit along the business path and are confronting the 3 unsexiest, and yet most critical, topics of business if you want to accelerate your growth. Check it out here: […]
My heart is very sad…
Hey there, Our beloved cat, Kira, who is 14 years old, is dying. She’s had cancer for some time, but it looks like she might not last – and, in fact, by the time you read this, we may have lost her. Please do not send personal emails. I’d love to see your wishes and […]
The Conference Game
I’m writing this in San Francisco from the Wisdom 2.0 conference- a crazy intersection of 3000 people from the tech industry and those engaged with wisdom traditions. Before I get into the game I played, I just want to be witnessed at how strange it was to be in San Francisco. I lived in the […]
How do people with such rotten integrity make such enormous amounts of money?
Updated 1/13/21 This question, in one form or another, has arisen from past clients and students, and has a surprisingly simple answer. For these people, their focus is making money. For some of them the focus is so strong it becomes a higher priority than kindness, or integrity, or love. This answer is a big […]
The Healing of the Market Place
Today we have something special for you: a story! A real, honest-to-goodness story told by a master story teller. It’s story time! One of the things I know is true, is that if we’re going to change this culture of ours, we have to rewrite the stories. The power of story to change and heal […]
When you’re dreading leading team meetings
This is an important day for Heart of Business: the debut of Lincoln Wachtel in our newsletter. Lincoln deserves a little introduction, just so you know who you’re reading. Lincoln came to Heart of Business when I was burnt out and exhausted. He told me later he was really worried about me. My team had […]
The learning curve when it comes to teams
Any business that achieves some level of success eventually hits what one of my clients called, a “crisis of capacity.” This is when you have more to do than time to do it. I don’t just mean having a lot of things to do on your list, but having more clients, more work, more paying […]
Goodbye to Jason Stein
Years ago, back in… 2003, was it? I was serving on the board of a nonprofit, when someone who worked at the nonprofit introduced me to a friend of his, and we went out for lunch. That person was Jason Stein. Heart of Business was still relatively new, and he was on his own entrepreneurial […]
My Sufi sheikh’s business medicine
One of my clients asked me a question about hope, because I was going on and on about it… 🙂 He mentioned that there is a teaching about hope that links it to attachment and thus suffering. Sufism has a different perspective, and it has to do with a different understanding about hope – and […]
What the *bleep* is a “business model”?
Now that the new year of 2016 has begun, let’s get right down to business. Today, business is about “business model.” Maybe you know what I mean, or maybe you’re not quite sure. Or maybe you’ve never heard of it before. Simply said, a business model is how your business takes money in. That’s the […]