Critical thinking is the ability to be disciplined enough intellectually to apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a situation before acting or forming a belief. Here are a few practices that can help make you “better” than the normal everyday thinkers (humble brag).

Today’s most innovative companies are more consistently asking for out-of-house help on parts of the innovation process that have traditionally been controlled by internal sources. This is outsourcing innovation. Today, 79% of Top 50 Global Innovators use such outsourcing practices to connect with external crowds during the in...

What a day! I give you a morning pump up speech, explain why working out is key to success, give you an inside look into some critical thinking advice that I share on someone else's show, and most importantly, you get to see my wife and I handle a flat tire in the middle of the night. Have a great day everyone!

I recently sat down with one of my business partners Peggy Stefan to discuss all things coworking. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

Today I was lucky enough to have Jim Watkins join the Master The Start Podcast. Jim and his business partner, Wade, were once living the stereotypical lives on Wall Street. After a handful of years, they decided to pack things up and move to Minnesota to start a cider brewery called Sociable Cider Werks. Their team has quickly grown to 29 fulltime employees.

I was lucky enough to interview the one and only Jerry Holl. One-day Jerry woke up and said, “I want to test myself. I should bike from Alaska to Mexico.” Coming off a lifetime of corporate positions, he wasn’t prepared for such a trip—his most trusted companion on the trip was a new bike he didn’t know how to fix. But inexperience and lack of a concrete plan didn’t stop him. Unsurprisingly, the journey taught him a lot about life the value of taking action.

I was lucky enough to interview the one and only Nathan Hirsch. Nathan has always been entrepreneurial. In college, he started a multimillion dollar Amazon business in his dorm room. Shortly after that, he founded FreeeUp, a leading freelance marketplace connecting businesses with the top 1% of freelancers.

I was lucky enough to interview the one and only Ozzie Nelson who is the Chairman and Co-CEO of Nelson Worldwide, an architecture, design and strategy firm with over 1,100 teammates and 25 offices. Through approximately 40 acquisitions since becoming CEO of the firm, Ozzie has grown Nelson Worldwide from a boutique architecture and design firm to the third-largest in the corporate America.

Today I had the absolute pleasure to interview Dr. Joe Gryskiewicz, a well known plastic surgeon, has developed the absorbable medical staple, is a writer, and speaks internationally. He joins us to talk about his many endeavors, including his life-changing experiences in South America helping orphans with cleft lips.

Today I had the absolute pleasure to interview Gary Stern, an avid cyclist, was once in his own “miserable jail”, working long hours with little time to spend doing the things he loved the most. After the Great Recession, he chose to ditch his corporate life and live a new and improved lifestyle. Today, Gary is proud to call himself a professional network marketer.