by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 9, 2019
Stephen Schwarzman is co-founder and CEO of Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms. His investments in hundreds of companies around the world have earned Schwarzman a net worth over $18 billion. Schwarzman has conducted thousands of job...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 7, 2019
I often agree to meet with entrepreneurs, investors, and CEOs for no other reason than to learn something new. This week, I had lunch with an entrepreneur and inventor who raised $17 million in a fundraising pitch and later sold his medical-device company for more...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 5, 2019
I learned a new term this weekend: Yoga babble. It’s a phrase that explains something I hear all too often when it comes to corporate mission statements. I just didn’t have a good way of describing it—until now. What is yoga babble? “It’s as if my yoga instructor went...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 4, 2019
A day after I finished reading a new book about American revolutionary war writer, Thomas Paine, a 16-year-old Swedish activist named Greta Thunberg gave an impassioned speech at the United Nations on the topic of climate change. Her angry, tearful speech went viral,...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2019
An entry-level clerk delivers documents to studio heads and learns the magical secret to making friends and influencing people. He doesn’t just succeed; he becomes one of the most iconic movie producers of our time. It sounds like a script, but the story is...
