Tactics and inspiration for UNLEASHING your FULl SELF
Writing clarifies complexity. After over 20 years spent running Alpine Investors and ten years as a lecturer at Stanford GSB, I’ve encountered plenty of challenges. I write stories, frameworks, and exercises to help me make sense of the world. I hope you’ll read along, start writing, and join me in a conversation centered around your whole self.
SELF DISCOVERY
Stories and exercises to help you build intention.
CURRENT EVENTS
Perspectives, thoughtful content, and humor.
LEADERSHIP
Insights and reflections from 20+ years spent building effective teams.
RECENT BLOGS
I have been meditating regularly for several years, and while it always helped me relax, focus, and be a bit less reactive in my normal life, I wouldn’t have called it “life-changing” — until one day in March 2020.
I was honored with the Stanford Graduate Business School’s 2024 MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and shared and gave a speech about some of the life lessons teaching has taught me.
I was honored with the Stanford Graduate Business School’s 2024 MBA Distinguished Teaching Award and shared and gave a speech about some of the life lessons teaching has taught me.
If you are looking for the smallest and quickest changes you can make to your lifestyle that will yield the largest impact on how you look — and more important, how you feel — you may be well served to focus first on your diet.
Over more than two decades at Alpine, we’ve found that the three principles that yield organic growth can be summarized in just six words: Ideal Customer, Irresistible Offer, and Operation Crush.
As we kick off 2024, many of us want to create new routines, stop bad habits and create new goals or resolutions. There is one factor, more than any other, that will help you succeed or stand in your way - dopamine.
I delivered a keynote speech at the 10th Annual Booth-Kellogg Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference, about the three principles of leadership and what people typically get wrong.
I was stuck in a cycle of sleepless nights and tired days, until a sleep specialist taught me the science behind restful sleep, and how to incorporate strong sleep habits into my daily routine.
Taylor is an artist, one of the best in the world in her industry, at the very top of her game. I would question how anyone could walk out of the concert not feeling inspired, even a 51-year-old guy working in private equity.
I was honored to give a Last Lecture for the Stanford Graduate School of Business Class of 2023. Read on for a summary of the message I shared, or watch the entire lecture video.