CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.

On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.

CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.

I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.

My fighting spirit has often seemed out of place.

There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.