Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

Category: Personal Finance

  • 296 James Danckert: The Psychology of Boredom

    About James Danckert From the University of Waterloo website: I became interested in boredom when working with people who had suffered traumatic brain injuries – typically from things like car crashes. They reported feeling more bored than before their injury and I believed this to be an organic change in brain function, not a psychological…

  • How to Become a Truly Great Employer

    Pexels – CCO Licence When people start businesses, they think about how much money they want to make, how much growth they want to see, and how big their brand is going to get; very few entrepreneurs start out thinking about how good they’ll be as an employer. Maybe they should. Being a great employer…

  • 295 David Jenyns: How to Created Systems to Run Your Business in Autopilot

    About David Jenyns After 17 years in business, David Jenyns systemized himself out of his company (Melbourne SEO & Video) and hired a CEO to run it. Through this process, he became a systems devotee, he went on to found systemHUB.com and started a movement called SYSTEMology.

  • 294 Lance Mortlock: Scenario Planning for a Post-Pandemic Future

    About Lance Mortlock Lance Mortlock is a strategic partner with Ernst & Young, based in Canada. He has provided management consulting services over 20 years to more than 60 organizations in 11 countries overseeing hundreds of projects. Mortlock has had the opportunity to work with the C-suite at leading national and international mining, oil and…

  • Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins (Book Review)

    I hate it when I hear people say that if you are born poor you will die poor. Or if you are born rich you will always be rich. Sure, the starting line is different. Some people start life with lots of advantages, and some people start life with lots of disadvantages. David Goggins started…

  • 293 Alan Payne: The Inside Story of Blockbuster’s Inevitable Bust

    About Alan Payne Alan Payne, a strategic leader, spent thirty-one years in the movie rental business, the last twenty-five of those as a Blockbuster retail franchisee. He took over a small group of Blockbuster stores in 1993 and grew it into one of the largest and most successful chains in the company. He finally closed…