Rick Smith

The greatness of our potential is created in our minds.  The limits, the obstacles that prevent us from achieving our potential are created in the same place.  Eight years ago, my perspective was changed dramatically as a result of the horrific events that unfolded that day.  I wrote down my thoughts, my scribblings hit the ...

The economy is in the toilet. Consumer sentiment has been very negative for quite some time. But there are some early signs of hope, a chance that we may be approaching the beginning of the end. This was the mood when I first was thinking about starting a new business in ...

  There is a growing chorus these days claiming that trying to find deeply fulfilling work in a recession is like trying to milk a fish. I think giving up on the pursuit of passion at work is a cop out. The reason so many come to this dead end conclusion is ...

And so begins my favorite week of the year. The TED conference, this year being held in Long Beach, California. TED is an assembly of big thinkers. It was started 25 years ago just as the world's of Technology, Entertainment and Media were converging. The original idea was to bring ...

  Entremanure (n.) - someone who generates really shitty new company ideas. In the fall of 2003, I began toying with the idea of creating a group of top-executive networks. Launched in early 2004, World 50 is now regarded as one of the most influential executive forums in the world ...

The 21st Century has ushered in amazing new social media applications. But with equal access to these powerful tools granted across the entire Bell curve of intelligences, it sometimes seems as if we have handed out machine guns to chimpanzees! Here are a few new rules for the road: 1) Do ...