Blog | Ed Carcarey

I Won the Lottery!

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For the first time in my life, I played the lottery. The prize was over One BILLION Dollars, and people were going crazy about the possibility to win. All the stores that sold these tickets were busy from dawn to dusk. People stood in line to spend money they really could not afford to lose and play a fantasy game in their minds about what they would do with that money.

As I was reading about the delirium the Country was in over the prize money, I could not help noticing a pattern in the Fantasy game people […]

Who Has Your Ear?

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Mentorship

My CPA was adamant on the phone with me about NOT buying the restaurant. I had called him to seek his advice about my next business venture but he did not tell me what I wanted to hear so after a few minutes of listening to him explain why it was doomed to fail I told him I knew what I was doing and hung up! Unfortunately he DID NOT HAVE MY EAR!

He did NOT have my Ear but three years later I had another conversation with him and this time I listened. This time I […]

[Podcast] Do we Lead by Feelings or Doing

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A Tale of Two Leaders

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Leadership

While serving in the Military for 8 years and then while being in business for the last 26 years, I’ve witnessed a lot of leadership styles, and most of them can be boiled down to 2 types: Those who wanted to feel good and those who wanted to do good.

During my military days, Staff Sergeant Johnson was a Feel Good Leader. All of his leadership decisions came out of “Good Intentions.” This meant he wanted to be liked, be popular and be one of the team. Johnson had great intentions for the team, and his ideas […]