The lyrics of Dermot Kennedy’s song “Outnumbered” start like this: Don’t tell me this is all for nothing I can only tell you one thing On the nights you feel outnumbered Baby I’ll be out there somewhere If you are an entrepreneur and Corona is your first worldwide crisis in your business life, you might […]

The heading is the name of a song created by D. Pomus and M. Shuman, first recorded in 1960 by The Drifters. It was written on the day of Mr. Pomus’ wedding. He had polio and was wheelchair-bound. His wife however was a Broadway actress and dancer. With the song he is telling his wife […]

Nowadays, while I work as a strategy consultant for a new international venture, I search for people who together with us will implement the business models we have developed. The people I talk to are executives who worked at the top management levels in large corporate companies and have recently left their positions. Most of […]

The other day I was meeting with several independent artists (creative people not working at a company to produce art for a salary) due to a new fine arts project I’m trying to bring to life. We were talking about an exhibition when I deliberately made the “mistake” again: I described their creations as “products”. […]

She was smiling. I was dumbfounded. It was my first interview in Sofia, Bulgaria with a potential business partner. She had seemed to be in agreement with all the details of the cooperation. Our meeting was coming to an end and I asked her if she thought positively about our common future. She shook her […]

If you are starting a new business you should know that you won’t always have all the resources to grow the business and that partnerships down the road are unavoidable. At the start of a new relationship almost no one thinks about divorce since one looks positively into the future. Similar to social partnerships. ☺ […]

Let’s say you dream about making a short film to participate in festivals. You are an executive in business life and have never made a film before. What do you do? Don’t say “How come?” I said it’s a dream. ☺ Using your business skills, you will probably first think about building a team to […]

“How old is too old to stop producing new scions?” an article published at wmagazine.com on December 8 asks. For Mick Jagger, there doesn’t seem to be an answer. The 73 years old The Rolling Stones member welcomed his eighth child with girlfriend Melanie Hamrick. The article argues that Jagger will have plenty of experience […]

“We are landing at Henri Coandă International Airport… please fasten….” It is the second episode of my adventure called “Romania”. 🙂 The first one had started 9 years ago. I had to give up Romania for a couple of years. Now I am claiming back those years. This time I was in Bucharest for 4 […]

Years ago my partners and I started a security systems business. We had forecasted a sale of 1000 units for the first year. We closed that year with 10 units. However, my partners believed in me and we fought our way thru to have a growing business two years later. “Don’t Give Up” is a […]