If you ever want to influence someone take them on a journey with you; let them desire to know what you will do next.  Let them feel what you feel, let them wish they could take part in that journey, maybe even give them a role in that journey (but remain the leader of that [...]

I write to you today from Langston Library here at UCI.  It’s 10:21pm, I’m hungry and am tired of writing down everything that I have to think about to start this business and then some.  I have to memorize how to say the story 500 different ways — the short, medium, and long version.  Then [...]

The other day I met the cofounder of BJ’s Restaurant.  We talked for a while and I have the opportunity to meet with him over lunch to discuss my 5-year projection for my business.  I have to put together where I think I should be in 5 years and then backtrack it.  As Mariah rings [...]