In the past 48 hours Technology decided to revolt against me. First, my computer refused to display the available networks I could connect to and as a result I was unable to connect for more than 24 hours.

I also had to transfer money to my designer if I wanted him to work over the weekend and finish the changes to my website. I turned to my mobile device instead and found that I was locked out of my account because the bank’s system did not recognize the IP address. Finally, I learned too late that my writer’s reasons for not responding to my urgent calls for help were due to the fact that all my e-mails had been re-directed to her “junk” folder. In spite of the fact that we had ample communication before.

The consequences of all those technological hiccups are significant to me. If you have been following my countdown postings you would have noticed that my countdown “skipped” Day 2. Also, my website will not be ready for the show. The question though is around what happens to our decision making when we find ourselves in a crisis? Do we gain an even greater clarity so we can trouble shoot with precision, or do we allow our feelings about the situation interfere with our thinking, and subsequently make poor decisions?

My Advisors and I will be able to answer those questions for you. One by one. All you need to do is listen to “Because There’s More” on VoiceAmerica business channel.

What if it was possible that YOU or ANY executive had access to what Marissa Mayer referenced as a condition of her success – a network of smart people who challenge you to think and act differently so you make better business decisions? And what if you could access this resource from anywhere, at any time? Would you grab the opportunity? Or would you lament that you are too busy to focus on things you do well already?

The recession that started in the US in December 2007 caused more devastation across the globe than we can even care to imagine. “We failed to constrain the financial system’s creation of private credit and money”, concluded the former chairman of the UK’s Financial Services Authority, Lord (Adair) Turner in 2013. Today it is still impossible to ascertain how many more years will be needed for a full recovery, not to mention that recovery is no longer a choice for millions of people whose future has been destroyed. Is Corporate Governance about Societies??? Damn right it is!

What if there was a way to reset the thinking of Board Directors toward acknowledging that beyond protecting and multiplying shareholder value they have the GREATER responsibility to protect the society at large? Would you endorse it?

I never shared the belief that there is only ONE CAUSE or ONE SOLUTION to a problem. Reality is a lot more complex than that. Our minds are far more complex. Problems are rarely what they first appear to be. I could throw in few quotes from research in the working of our minds to demonstrate my statements are based on facts and not just on “common-sense speculations”. But I will do that on my radio show.

I am starting a show to test a hypothesis and because I believe where we are today is just a place before the place where we will be tomorrow. We do need to keep moving forward because progress will happen whether we seek it or not.

I don’t believe I have THE answer BUT I did create an alternative to better businesses and better societies. It might sound overly grandiose but as the English would say “Don’t Knock It Till You Try It.” Listen to my show and test it out.

I was quite a bit younger when I was exposed to the first “Judgement and Decision Making” module in the undergraduate Psychology degree I attended in London, England. Yet, that experience remains till today my one and true encounter with the concept of INTELLECTUAL LOVE at first sight. It was then I developed the passion for seeking to understand more about the workings of our minds after reading the work of Professor Daniel Kahneman and Dr. Amos Tversky, his partner. Their research, which won them the Nobel Prize in Economics (unfortunately Amos passed away before the Nobel was awarded) allowed me to step into a different world. At that point I became Alice in Wonderland.

I still feel like Alice today. Is what gives me the courage to dream and the hope that I will take their work and turn it into a machine. And that the machine will make our societies a better place. One business at a time.

Just by chance, the first book I picked up to educate myself on what it will take to run a business, was Daniel Priestley’s “Entrepreneur Revolution”. The red fist on the cover plus the word “revolution” must have resonated with the Commie in me – I grew up in Communist Romania.:) The book, literally, inspired me to tears. After all those years of struggling to fit inside the corporate world and feeling there was something wrong with me for not succeeding, I read a book that brought back hope. Daniel Priestley told me that I DO FIT IN, just not where I thought I might have. Today, while I was looking for inspiration for the countdown post, I thought of Daniel and his new book, “Oversubscribed”. The out pour of support from current and former clients, from friends, and friends of the friends, and friends of clients, and professionals I only met on LinkedIn, has been amazing. I was planning to post the link to the show but long before I got to that point I had tons of asks to forward the link, inquiries into “how to listen”, etc, It has been amazing and it is making me feel “Oversubscribed” as Daniel suggests in his book. Because I don’t want to miss-represent the meaning behind the title, I will let the author describe it himself.

AND I will meet you Monday 9 am EST/2pm GMT/4pm Romania time ON THE RADIO.

“There are restaurants that people line up for. There are products that you must pre order months in advance. There are tickets that sell out on the day they are released. There are stocks that go roaring up in value right after they float.
There are people who don’t chase clients, clients chase them. In a world of endless choices, why does this happen? Why do people line up? Why do they pay more? Why will they book in advance? Why are these people and products in such high demand?
The ideas in this book are not for people who want to run a gimmick, make a fast sale or pull a swift win over their unsuspecting buyers.
Before the ideas in this book will work for you, you must have an offering you believe in that genuinely serves people. You must feel passionate about it and the value it presents to the world. You must love what you do, you must care about your customers and you must want to be in your business for the long haul. For the rest of this book, I will assume that’s a given.
Being oversubscribed is the way for you to do you best work. It’s a way for you to spend more time with your clients rather than chasing new ones, it allows you to innovate your products rather than running around selling them and it allows you to build your brand rather than blending in with the crowd.
’m hoping this book gives you a look at the bigger picture. The tapestry isn’t just in this book. The book might be a guide to seeing it. If you haven’t seen a bigger picture, go back and read the book again. The tapestry is too rich to miss and too big to put in one book.
I hope you see it.”
Daniel Priestley, I WILL BE OVERSUBSCRIBED!