Basketball is a vehicle, it’s not the end all be all, it’s the vehicle to get you from Point A to point B. Use basketball and let it use you.
We’re from MIT, we don’t deal in feelings.
Entrepreneurship is as much about the construction of new realities by committed stakeholders as it is about accurate perceptions of extant realities.
Numbers are people too. One of the insights I’ve gotten from Karyl Lechter’s finance stories is that I now better understand where traditional cliché MBA thinking fails. Numbers might be how you keep score, but it’s not how you play the game. Optimizing numbers and ratios is not a goal in itself, as these don’t really paint the whole picture. Behind every number in a spreadsheet, there are people: consumers, employees, partners, stakeholders.
A causal logic is based on this premise: To the extent we can predict the future, we can control it. An effectual logic is based on this premise: To the extent we can control the future, we do not need to predict it.
Second day Entrepreneurial Selling Seminar with Master Craig Wortmann - he’s a professor at Chicago’s Booth School of business and the best salesman I’ve ever seen. He made me call the buyer from Saks Fifth Avenue live, in front of the whole Kauffman crowd. We actually got him on the phone and opened some awesome opportunities. Craig will just shift your notion of possible.
A high-octane, grinding session with Peter McDermott - one of the world’s best IP Attorneys (he used to do this gig named Ford Motor Co.) on how you do defensive and offensive Intellectual Property, structure and negotiate licensing deals and general legal magic. Love this guy!