Generation BIG

Is your business BIG? I don’t mean BIG in the sense of giant — like GE or IBM or Microsoft. I mean BIG as in bold, innovative, and generous. Whether you run a five-person operation out of a single room or a Fortune 500 behemoth with offices around the globe, your business will be better [...]

Earlier this week. Warren Buffett announced that 40 of the wealthiest families or individuals in America have made “The Giving Pledge” to donate at least half their wealth to charitable causes. Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates launched The Giving Pledge program earlier this year to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in America to [...]

Frank McKinney’s BIG journey began with a newspaper picture of a needy man. A successful real estate “artist” and creator of some of the most magnificent oceanfront homes on speculation (he just finished Acqua Liana the world’s largest and most expensive certified green home at $24.3 million!), McKinney was reading a profile about himself in [...]

I met and connected with a great, BIG person today — entrepreneur Ileana Kane — who turned us on to this video. Turn on your computer’s audio, turn up the volume, and check it out. Wondering what it means to be BIG? Looking for inspiration to look at life through a new lens and make [...]

An excerpt from Chapter 10 of Generation BIG – The Rising Tide of Dreams to Action The Greatest Generation was not about personal reinvention and dream fulfillment. They went to war and then went to work – at the automobile factory, at IBM, for the professional agency, for decades, until they retired. They dutifully earned [...]

The following is an excerpt from the upcoming book, Generation BIG. In the book, I profile several BIG people, including Bruce Cohn. The following is from the chapter about Cohn whom I visited at his winery, B.R. Cohn, in December. – Jeffrey Smith “In the beginning, back in the early ‘70′s, I’m telling you, we [...]