On the SpecOps Battlefield and in Business, Don’t "Believe," Know by E.M. Burlingame Only two types of confidence exist: the artificial and the Continue Reading
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Six Rules Anyone Can Follow to Rise to the Occasion
Six Rules Anyone Can Follow to Rise to the Occasion by E.M. Burlingame “Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.” ― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium's Continue Reading
Special Forces, Entrepreneurship: Group Think Kills
Group Think Kills by E.M. Burlingame Equally on the battlefields of war, startups and politics, group think kills. There is no more destructive Continue Reading
Special Forces, Entrepreneurship: Never Quit!
Special Forces, Entrepreneurship: Never Quit! by E.M. Burlingame Growing up, despite my best attempts not to listen, the elders taught me nothing Continue Reading
2nd Rule for the Counterradical
2nd Rule for the Counterradical by Speciali Copias Rule #2: “The people possess far more intelligence than is currently developed.” Even Continue Reading
Get Over Yourself, You’re Not the Main Effort
Get Over Yourself, You're Not the Main Effort by E.M. Burlingame SpecOps “Cool Guys” and first time entrepreneurs “Cool Kids” suffer alike from Continue Reading
Imperfections, Special Forces, and Entrepreneurship
Imperfections, Special Forces, and Entrepreneurship by E.M. Burlingame It is often subtle differences, slight incongruities, which are the real Continue Reading
Special Forces, Entrepreneurship: Fear of Failure
Special Forces, Entrepreneurship: Fear of Failure by E.M. Burlingame There is an old Japanese proverb, which goes, “Fall down seven times, stand Continue Reading
Special Forces and Entrepreneurship: Pushing Beyond Failure
Special Forces and Entrepreneurship: Pushing Beyond Failure by E.M. Burlingame The truly important things, those that change the course of a life Continue Reading
Startup Success is a Sequence of Running Gun Battles
A running gun battle: an argument that continues over a long period of time; and a fight that takes place as one group chases Continue Reading
Special Forces, Entrepreneurship: Only the Practical Matters
Few weeks ago, in Never Quit!, I discussed Malcom Gladwell’s 10,000 hours Outlier theory, the concept it takes 5 years of research and diligent effort Continue Reading
