Sharing lessons learned from an Eternal Rock Pusher

For almost twenty years I have lived the life of a serial entrepreneur. After spending the first half of my career with fortune 500 companies I have started five different companies.  In all of these business endeavors I equate my life to pushing square rocks uphill.

I have managed to stay married to the same wife, raise two kids, pay for a very expensive  wedding, continue to pay for college and have watched the birth of my first grand child.

I have witnessed first hand the difficulty in birthing an idea into a product and taking that very precious concept into the market.   It does not matter if you work in a large company, an small company, you are a leader or a follower, you are involved each day in pushing either your rock or someone else's uphill.

I hope the stories of my success and failures will enlarge your vision of who you can be and how you can be more effective leader of men and women in all areas of your life. 

Over the years I have achieved great success, experienced total failure, and yet always continued to climb the hill in front of me.  I have tried to capture the essence some of the most powerful concepts that we tend to ignore in business.  As I present these concepts to you, I want you to consider that anyone can use the principles.  

The first key to successfully pushing rocks uphill is the envisioning process.  You see we all start at the bottom of a very steep hill with a very big flat rock. Without an envisioning process it is highly likely the Rock will back over on you at some point in your journey. For those impatient Rock Pushers, take a deep breath and figure out what route you will take up the hill.  More on this later.