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Who is Harry Max’s mentor?

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Career, Uncategorized

[This post is part of a series on Mentors and Heroes]   Harry Max is an independent management consultant and executive coach for a variety of startups and major brands. Previously he was a Principal Consultant at Rubicon Consulting. In 1994, he co-founded Virtual Vineyards (wine.com). Follow him on Twitter @harrymax. Harry Max’s mentor is… [...]

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Whit Hour moved to 8/31 9pm ET

August 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Sincere apologies for the last minute change. Unfortunately I will not be able to do Whit Hour tonight. Instead it will be tomorrow, Monday 8/31 from 9-10pm Eastern Time. Same as always, join me at http://tinychat.com/whitney pw:whithour. Sorry again! Hope to see you all tomorrow night.

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The outpouring of love for Randy Pausch

July 26th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized

When I found out yesterday morning that Randy Pausch had passed away the night before, I felt a wave of regret pour over me. For the things I never said. Like: “Thank you for showing me that my purpose in life is to make other people’s lives better.” That would have been a good start. [...]

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Randy Pausch loses battle with pancreatic cancer at 47

July 25th, 2008 · 21 Comments · Uncategorized

For those of you who have never heard of Randy Pausch, he was a much admired professor at Carnegie Mellon (my alma mater), and became world-renowned for his “Last Lecture” delivered last September in which he emphatically discussed how to really achieve all of your childhood dreams (he did!). Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer [...]

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