Anthony Gold

Long title, but another great topic hosted by the Entrepreneurs Forumwhere I again had the honor of serving as a panelist.
Along with Philadelphia lawyer (and jazzman) extraordinaire Steve Goodman, Neil Vogel (Recognition Media CEO and producer of the Webby Awards), Irv Safra (moderator and high tech speaker) and Marc Sinkow (Vistage Chairman and co-chair of the [...]

Check out BlogTalkRadio’s Frugal Friday. It’s a great show that focuses on “all things Linux and Open Source”. I have the honor of speaking on this week’s show. It is hosted by Ken Hess and Jason Perlow (Linux superstar who I’ve worked with in the past), and airs from 6:30-7:30 pm (eastern) on Friday evenings.

I receive unsolicited resumes all the time, and I’ve yet to see one that really impressed me. As a matter of fact, not even a single email has yet lured me to open the attached resume.
Why is that?
It certainly isn’t through lack of purported “hard skills”

Generated 107% of $7.4 million quota in my first [...]

The age-old business
challenge: how to get the most out of people? We all know the different
kinds of leaders from the coercive drivers, authoritarian rulers,
coaching/affiliative partners, and so forth. A lot of good material is
written on these archetypes and how to become a better leader. What I’d
like to briefly share, however, is a slightly different twist: [...]

Have you ever witnessed the hidden potential suddenly unleashed inside of someone? It can be life transforming, as exemplified in this true story.
As a committee board member for People’s Light and Theatre Company, I was invited to attend a play that was being performed by neurologically challenged kids at a local school. The [...]

Probably not as well as we think. And yet, truly understanding oneself is perhaps one of the most significant differentiators of great leaders from merely good or even poor leaders. This is the realm of emotional intelligence (EI or EQ), a term popularized by Daniel Goleman in his published books from the late 1990s.
Components [...]

I’ve written on this topic before and recently revisited the Project Implicit study at Harvard. They’ve built a virtual laboratory where “visitors can examine their own hidden biases.” The web tests measure which direction we subconsciously lean when it comes to certain “pairs” of traits. For instance, some of the pairings include [...]

For the past several months, I’ve been serving as an Algebra tutor for my friend’s child. This kid is very gifted intellectually, but he suffers from pretty severe ADHD, and unfortunately Algebra is his last class of the day, right about the time when his lack of attentiveness and patience reach their peak. Couple that [...]

As people become aware of the possible applications of open source in segments of society beyond the technical field, I find that I’m presented with more and more opportunities to extol the virtues of open source. (Of course, I still love presenting to the techies as well.)
Last week, I had the chance to speak [...]