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Louis XVI of France was a man to whom destiny and history threw down a great challenge. He was the last king of France before the 1789 Revolution, and he was beheaded in 1793. He loved hunting and being on his own. It seems that he never wanted to be king and never showed any inclination to involve himself in matters of state. He was described as feeble and lacking the firmness and decisiveness needed to be a king in the old Europe. When the first signs of the Revolution app

Decisions are not made in a vacuum. Our emotions, past experiences, assumptions and beliefs all create the story we tell ourselves about our business, what we can achieve, and what needs to be done. Stories can be told, and they can be deconstructed. What are the assumptions and beliefs hiding behind your decision? What is the story that you want to tell, and what is the story that you’re actually telling when you’re making a decision? What you do can be as powerful as what y

Everybody loves talking about how they failed with their business and how they turned it into a success. Everybody loves talking about the seductive narrative of failure as a sort of a rite that you need to pass through to achieve a famous life. But very few people talk about failure while they’re experiencing it. People are interested in failure only if they can be successful as a result of it. We’re so attached to the outcome that we can’t see the real value of failing. Dav