by Scott Anderson | Sep 14, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
I love the term “Misery Olympics” and wish I’d thought of it first. Google it and you’ll get about 549,000 results, but who has time to get to the bottom of that rabbit hole? We all watched the Olympics in Brazil last month, but the Misery Olympics never end—they go...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 31, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Playing Big
Coach Ben Ryan is this ultra-gingery London guy: red hair, red face, red beard. He’d been the coach of Great Britain’s sevens rugby team, but they fired him about four years ago. It was humiliating to get dumped. In a kind of self-exile, Ben took a job in...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 24, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Playing Big
When it comes to business advice, I can never get enough of the Oracle of Omaha. That’s right, it’s time for another Buffett-based blog. This fits in nicely with what I’ve been talking about all summer and is really a continuation of the niche (and...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 18, 2016 | Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
I’ll just say it—I’m a sucker for reinvention stories. I love to see emails like the one I received yesterday from my friend Kris Kluver. This guy is your classic entrepreneur and really embodies the spirit of adventure. He started the first of 14 companies when he...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 3, 2016 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big, Uncategorized
In a recent New York Times piece, “The Incalculable Value in Finding A Job You Love,” Economics professor Robert H. Frank validated much of what I say about developing a niche market. To be happy, research suggests, earning a high salary isn’t enough. Once...
by Scott Anderson | Jul 27, 2016 | Essential Reading, Leadership, Playing Big, Uncategorized
Jeff Bezos just passed up Warren Buffett as the third richest person in the world (despite the fact that Amazon has yet to post a profit). Interestingly, Mr. Buffett has had a number of complimentary things to say about Bezos lately. In May, Buffett told CNBC, “We...
