As an entrepreneur, you can't face everything every day. So, you compartmentalize. But, that's risky to do alone. You need someone to help sort through it.
The most important word for any leader today is 'And'. No longer is it enough to run a profitable business or a successful enterprise. Integration is key.
Traveling is exhausting. It's easy to feel torn between thinking about all of the work back home and being present in market. How can you handle this and get your s#*t done?
If it’s hard for entrepreneurs to have a life, it’s doubly so for entrepreneurs solving the biggest problems in the world, but having a healthy life is better for both you and your company.
Unreasonable Institute fellow Divya Yachamaneni, deputy general manager of Naandi Community Water Services, explains how her company is bringing clean drinking water to rural Indian families for less than $2 per month. NCWS’s low-cost water-purification stations are now in more than 400 villages, delivering clean, safe drinking water to about 600,000 people.
How many times have you justified your pizza by telling yourself the tomato sauce and veggie toppings are providing some nutritional value? Or maybe that, yeah, you had two slices of pizza, but at least you didn’t have three? Avoid those sorts of rationalizations by internalizing the following two food rules
Burnout can destroy the best of ideas and intentions. While an idea can, in theory, be limitless, the brain is a physical organ with limitations. If these limitations aren’t acknowledged the consequences can be grave. Don't let burnout destroy your idea.
Success takes time, fortitude and a certain measure of self-esteem. If you're in short supply of any of these things, sometimes it's worth "faking it to make it."
Spending hours on phone calls, emails, and meetings is a great start to solving the world's big problems, but it is equally important to be humbled by nature because it will make you a better social innovator (and a better human).
If you’re a start up and you don’t have a real, working application to help your employees nurture health first; before bringing clean water to a village, before providing food for the hungry, then you’re doing something wrong.
What’s the best exercise? The exercise that burns the most calories, the fat-burning, booty-kicking, 8-pack ab-giving workout that will change your life? Read on to find out. It may not be what you expect.
There are contagions out there waiting for a go at your immune system, waiting to take hold and shake you. Invest in health so that you can save the world later.
Everything needs to be put into context. When you are wondering what should be prioritized, related to your business or your health, you need to ask the last question in Ann Garvin's 3 part series.
Time is at a premium for everyone, especially innovators, start-ups and entrepreneurs. To prevent time wasters, there are three questions you must never forget to ask. In the second post of her 3-part series, Ann reveals the second question that will save you time, money, and your health.
The need to get the right information is universal. There are three questions you must never forget to ask. In this post, you'll discover the first question that will save you time, money, and possibly lives.
If the world's biggest problems have any shot at all at being rectified, we need to shift from masters of consuming things to lovers of fixing things. The shift starts with you!