by Stephen Key | Oct 29, 2016 | How to Become Successful
Post Views: 417 I can remember sitting in a classroom at Santa Clara University and looking out of a window at the rain, feeling desperately unhappy. I didn’t want to be studying economics. It wasn’t that my classes were tough, although they definitely were. It just...
by Stephen Key | Oct 20, 2016 | How to Become Successful
Post Views: 424 Success has a lot to do with momentum. What sets those who achieve their goals apart? They keep moving the ball down the court. They don’t let obstacles derail them. They hang in there. What does that look like in practice? Abandoning fear of...
by Stephen Key | Oct 20, 2016 | Getting In to Companies Looking For Ideas
Post Views: 423 I’ve been inventing nearly all my life, although I’ve never really thought of myself as aninventor. (And still don’t.) That’s because my first inventions were out born out of necessity. They were really products more than...
by Stephen Key | Oct 20, 2016 | Getting In to Companies Looking For Ideas
Post Views: 428 Some industries are more receptive to new ideas than others. Neither my students nor I have ever had any success breaking into the greeting card industry, for example. The music industry, on the other hand, celebrates ingenuity — like you’d...
by Stephen Key | Oct 20, 2016 | How to Become Successful
Post Views: 410 Our fears hold us back, sometimes without us even realizing it. Things will go wrong. My advice? Plan ahead. Most people never plan for failure. There’s that saying, “There is no Plan B.” I think adopting that attitude is a mistake....