Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info ‘Give a man a match and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the…
Author: Earl R. Smith II, PhD
Entrepreneur? What the hell is that?
Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info Last week I could not even spell entrepreneur now I are one! One of the traps that self-identified entrepreneurs find themselves in comes as a…
My Mentoring Approach
Earl R. Smith II, PhD Chief@Dr-Smith.info www.Dr-Smith.info I will freely admit that I enjoy my mentoring practice. Whether it is leadership mentoring, executive mentoring, organizational mentoring, life mentoring or just mentoring, the…
Be Genuine
Earl Smith The manufactured content world is full of lists. Some time ago, somebody wrote that the most effective way to generate content is to produce a-how to list. And…
Finding Meaning Without Manufacturing Meaning
Earl R. Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The human tendency to label – and call the label the meaning of the thing – can prevent us from experiencing the world as…
Understanding Venture Capital:
The money chase has been the death of many good companies. There are a range of reasons why this is so. Some companies simply do not deserve funding – they…
A Tale of A Mentoring Client
We are not who we say we are. We are who others say we are. Your reflection in the eyes of those who have come to know you is always…
Don’t waste your life living out other people’s visions of you
Earl R. Smith II. PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info Like most such observations, the title of this chapter is subject to misunderstanding. I suppose it is inevitable that some readers might take the easy…
Capitalism On Trial
Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info There is a sea change going on among Millennials and Generation Z. The rest of us should pay close attention to it. The Harvard University…
Chapters, the End of a Road and Impermanence
Earl R. Smith II. PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info Over the years, I’ve noticed two different perspectives on life when it comes to dealing with change. In the first case, life is seen either…
Alienation From What Is
Earl R. Smith II. PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info It’s a common human reaction. Dissatisfaction with the way things are often leads to a determination to make them better. The idea that tomorrow may…
A Leadership Mentor – Finding the Right One
Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info Leadership mentoring can make a huge difference in the career prospects of an up-and-coming executive. The delays and risks of learning by experience – by…
A Fundamental Understanding
Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info Realization often takes more time because ego and hubris interfere. Presumption is a challenging adversary when it is self-deployed. In an effort to avoid the…
A couple of interesting if irrelevant tendencies
Earl R. Smith II. PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info It is occasionally amusing to read comments that seem to assiduously avoid the focus of a posting in order to vent some personal suspicion of…
A Question of Identity
Earl R Smith II, PhDChief@Dr-Smith.infoDr-Smith.info According to many modernist social theorists, questions of identity center on an ‘authentic knowledge’ of the ‘self’ and of the shelves of others. It was…
Forty-Six Meditations: for the Thinking Chief Executive
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Business Development Turbo-Charged
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Dream Walk: Parables for the Living
Meditations on Meaning Click Here to Buy From Amazon in Kindle and Paperback Click Here to Buy From Smashwords in All Formats A life’s journey is a marvelous thing –…
Zen Mentoring: Forty Meditations
Click Here to Buy Through Amazon in Kindle or Paperback I have written based upon years of experience. The understandings that I have gained have been the results of failures…
Business Development: The Right Way
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Understanding Venture Capital: Winners understand the investor mindset
Buy from Amazon in Kindle or Paperback The money chase has been the death of many good companies. There are a range of reasons why this is so. Some companies…
Venture Funding: Climbing the Money Mountain
The Money Chase has been the death of many good companies. There are a range of reasons why this is so. Some companies simply do not deserve funding – they…
Asking to Listen
Curiosity is an amazing trait. In fact, I admit to being intensely curious about curiosity. But then those of you who have read much of my writings will know that…
For every problem there is a neat, plain solution
and it is almost always wrong. The structure of simpleminded solutions is always the same. Massive amounts of reality are sheared away, complexity ignored, subtlety abhorred and the principal project…
