by Stan Phelps | Feb 22, 2024 | Gray Goldfish, Inspiration, Leadership
Leadership is overrated. FOLLOWING is as important as LEADING. If you’ve never seen it… take 3 minutes and watch this TED talk by Derek Sivers: Even if you are a leader, you follow someone. It might be the manager above you, it might be the CEO of your...
by Stan Phelps | Feb 1, 2023 | Inspiration
Great time catching up with Colin Ryan CPFC, ACEC and Dr. Gary McGrath, CSP® on Wednesday for a Jeffersonian Lunch. Our discussion at the Bonefish Grill in Cary centered around leadership and communication. Both are specialties for Gary...
by Stan Phelps | Dec 28, 2022 | Inspiration
I’m starting a new tradition in the Triangle in 2023. It is called Wednesday Jeffersonian Lunch. A Jefferson what? What exactly is a Jeffersonian Lunch? Thomas Jefferson was known to invite thought leaders and influencers of his time from various...
by Stan Phelps | Jan 28, 2021 | Inspiration
Remembering Kobe. “Everything negative — pressure, challenges — is all an opportunity for me to rise.” This quote by the late Kobe Bryant is a tribute to his approach to life. I never met Kobe, but admired him from a short distance. I was in grad...
by Stan Phelps | Nov 30, 2020 | Inspiration
I woke up yesterday morning and my wife Jenn shared the awful news. Tony Hsieh passed away in Connecticut as a result of injuries sustained in a house fire while visiting family. Tony was a gifted entrepreneur, best-selling author, customer experience advocate, and a...
by Stan Phelps | Nov 3, 2020 | Inspiration
Who is your North Star? We all stand on the shoulders of others. Who is that person for you? Mine is Theodore “Ted” Levitt. Levitt became a HBS professor in 1959. Over the course of four decades, he would become the leading voice on marketing culminating...
