The Wired Entrepreneur: The Early Years of Elon Musk
“I didn’t really expect to make any money,” he says of his first venture. “If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.”
He might have [...]

How Bezos Took Amazon to the Top:

Bezos was hit with the hard reality of life when he came to the realization in university that he would never become one of the world’s great physicists. Little did he know that what the future had in store for him would be equally as impressive; from the garage [...]

Average leaders focus on results, and that’s it.  Good leaders focus also on the behaviors that will get the results.  And great leaders focus, in addition, on the emotions that will drive these behaviors.
One emotion that shapes our behavior is anger, and Martin Luther King Jr., whose 83rd birthday would have been [...]

5 LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM STEVE JOBS:
Whether you’re a “Mac or PC,” the recent passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at the age of fifty-six from pancreatic cancer provides a salient moment of reflection for any organizational leader.
Jobs’ legacy and impact on the world is likely to stretch far into the future compared to the brief [...]

The Billion-Dollar Author: Harry Potter’s J. K. Rowling Is Born
“I was very low and I had to achieve something,” recalls Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. “Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.”
Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. Working as a secretary was not how she had envisioned her life. She [...]