As co-founder of Hotwire.com and CEO of Zillow for the last seven years, 39-year-old Spencer Rascoff fits most people’s definition of success. As a father of three young children, Spencer is a busy guy at home and at work. What’s the one thing that Spencer refuses to do on the weekend? Work—at least, in the traditional sense. Rascoff says: “I never go into the office on weekends, but I do […]
Sometimes, you jump out of the gate with a great idea that you can polish and run with. Everything’s going well — until you get hit with a failure. Failure punches you in the gut, leaving you with throbbing wounds and the inability to do anything but moan about what might have been. But take heart — failure isn’t the end, unless you let it be. Failure means you’re on […]
Billionaire Virgin chairman Richard Branson celebrates a Virgin Atlantic expansion into India at Mumbai. The idea of being “successful” is ultimately a matter of personal judgment. But regardless of personality, industry, or point in history, there are timeless truths about what it takes to achieve one’s potential. Self-made industrialist Andrew Carnegie was the wealthiest man on the planet in the early 20th century and was a student of what it […]
“How you finish the workday is very important,” says Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and author of “You Can’t Be Serious! Putting Humor to Work.” Below are the 14 things successful people do in the last 10 minutes of workday. 1. They update their to-do lists. Successful professionals always keep an eye on their ever-changing to-do lists, explains Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of “Tame […]
