Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. – -Seneca. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – -George S. – -Robert Frost. The cure for boredom is curiosity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

I saw the power of language come to life earlier this summer when I made an eye-opening visit to a day-long orientation held every six weeks or so for new employees of Quicken Loans, the online mortgage lender based in Detroit and owned by high-profile billionaire Dan Gilbert.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics. Gilbert did, can end up as president of the Dallas Fed (although who knows, maybe Tumblr founder David Karp has a shot). History has not judged his tenure well. But a career professor?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

Harvard happiness researcher Daniel Gilbert has shown that children don’t increase parents’ short-term happiness ; in fact, on a day-to-day basis, parents prefer almost anything (from watching television to exercising) to spending time with their kids. The arc of family life is different.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

They''ve also been troubled, and Cleveland even defaulted on some bank loans in the late 1970s. The downtown Detroit boomlet is to a remarkable extent the work of one wealthy risk-taker, Quicken Loans chairman and co-founder Dan Gilbert. Among America''s ten biggest cities in 1950, two others — Cleveland and St. Entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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