I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Bert Jacobs, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Optimist of the now $100 million Life is Good: Producer of apparel, Frisbees, mugs and other consumer goods adorned by Jake, the company’s happy-go-lucky mascot. Step into any Hallmark store and even in several airports across the country, and you’ll […]
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Optimistic About 2015
Time sure does fly by, doesn’t it? In the blink of an eye, POOF! another year, gone. It was a tough one, 2014. Vis-à-vis other years, it seemed to be filled with more heartbreak and change and challenge and oddities and disappointments and sadness and loss than expected. Moving past the downside, I must also […]
Optimism in 2012
Today, my first article for the Huffington Post was published among the online journal’s recent blog entries. The focus was optimism. Yes, you read that correctly. Optimism for 2012 – it may make for a very compelling campaign slogan, don’t you think? The piece centered on a recent study by the Kauffman Foundation, in conjunction […]