Because I work with entrepreneurs who own businesses, I have found Doug Tatum's No Man's Land to be a really helpful body of working knowledge. It's very applicable to most businesses that have the usual problems of growing businesses - managing people, capital, markets, etc.

I've got better things to do than to find my individuality in that particular area. But if it's important to me, I've got to seek my own path.

MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.

I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

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.

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

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