What I Believe

I believe in:

• • Talent autonomy over talent management
  • Entrepreneurship is for everyone
  • Action produces more insight than introspection
  • “Career” is a verb
  • Career planning is dead, work modeling is alive and well

We all have to regularly reinvent how we work. Combining entrepreneurship basics with the Business Model You™ methodology helps us develop our careers by design rather than default.

My personal business model approach evolved over 30 + years of experience doing some 40 jobs, from washing dishes and tending bar to starting and running a professional services venture — and later selling it to a NASDAQ-listed firm in a multimillion dollar transaction. The methodology is set forth in Business Model You, ranked first among new business startup books by The Independent in 2012.

I conceived Business Model You while completing doctoral studies in international business model portability and serving as one of the five main co-creators of the international bestseller Business Model Generation, written by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur (plus a sensational crowd of 470 practitioners from 45 countries)

Previously I started and ran a professional services venture that helped clients expand their businesses overseas. Here are some of the clients we served:

Today I lead the personal business model movement at BusinessModelYou.com. I formerly served as a professor of business and hold undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral degrees from Stanford University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Hitotsubashi University’s Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy. I’m proud to be a certified NEXT entrepreneurship instructor who is professionally and academically qualified to teach entrepreneurship at the university level.