Emotions are powerful and the biggest emotional motivator of all is fear. There are two types of fear. The first is real. It gets triggered when facing actual, life threatening situations. The second is psychological—these are things we make up in our own minds because we’re afraid of failure, losing a job or missing an […]
Recently, I spent some time in Manhattan. This was after a long absence since my Business School and McKinsey days in the late 1980s. I had been asked to head up marketing for a private equity-owned security software startup as its Chief Marketing Officer. I was eager to go to Manhattan. I remembered how advanced […]