OFF the CUFF

  • Peter Diamandis: Mining Asteroids, The XPRIZE and Changing the World

    By Gloria McDonough-Taub | Off the Cuff – Mon, Sep 30, 2013 11:15 AM EDT

    Growing up as a kid, Peter Diamandis fantasized of being an astronaut and flying in space. He never made that trip, but he’s championing some out of this world ideas including reinventing health care and revolutionizing education, saving the oceans and mining asteroids.

    “I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.”

    Like mining asteroids.

    “Some of these asteroids that we're targeting are worth trillions of dollars in fuels in strategic metals” and Diamandis believes the sky’s the limit, “asteroid mining really is effectively a limitless marketplace.”

    The world renowned futurist Diamandis, is obsessed with saving the world’s most challenging problems and he’s not doing it all on his own. He’s been able to get the financial backing, advice and support from some of the world’s wealthiest people including Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, Tesla’s Elon Musk, Tata’s Ratan Tata, Sir Richard Branson and filmmaker James

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  • Mark Tercek: A Wall Street Plan for Nature

    By Gloria McDonough-Taub | Off the Cuff – Tue, Sep 24, 2013 11:57 AM EDT

    When Mark Tercek describes his job, he puts it this way “we're winning many battles, we might be losing the war.” Many would consider that a bleak outlook especially from the man who’s leading an organization that’s trying to save the earth.

    Tercek is the CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the nonprofit group founded in 1915 (its name then was the Ecological Society of America). His path to the nonprofit world came via his career at one of the world’s biggest for profit companies, Goldman Sachs where he had worked for 24 years and had risen to the enviable and lucrative position of managing director.

    But even with an enviable paycheck, it wasn’t enough.

    “Lots of people ask me how and why I left Wall Street to join The Nature Conservancy and why, in particular, The Nature Conservancy. I couldn't be happier. As a Wall Street investment banker, I became very interested in the environmental cause. And as a parent, I became very interested in getting my kids exposed to nature.”

    The career

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  • Angie Hicks: She Has the Nation on Her List

    By Gloria McDonough-Taub | Off the Cuff – Tue, Sep 17, 2013 2:46 PM EDT

    Anyone who watches TV has seen her face. Angie Hicks (Bowman) is the co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer and face of Angie’s List, the website that lets its paying members view ratings and reviews of local businesses and service professionals.

    With her practical haircut and twin-sweater sets, this reluctant celebrity promotes her company on TV and radio with pure Midwestern understatement.

    But behind that low key demeanor is a woman with a story worth shouting from the rooftops.

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  • Dan Pink: Swimming in an ‘Ocean of Rejection’

    By Gloria McDonough-Taub | Off the Cuff – Thu, Sep 5, 2013 2:07 PM EDT

    The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says that one in nine of American works is in sales. Well forget that! Author Dan Pink says we’re all in sales.

    Pink, the author of “To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others,” says even if you don’t realize it, you’re selling. You may not be standing at a cash register or standing on a car lot, but you’re selling. Every time you want a job, or pitch a new project, or if you’re an entrepreneur trying to get investors, you’re selling. You do it every time you stand before the board of directors and every time you try to get your kids to clean up their room or do their homework. Pink calls it “non-sales selling.”

    Today’s type of selling Pink told "Off the Cuff", is not about making money. Instead he says we seek rewards of time, attention, effort, energy and commitment.

    Read More: American Workers Are at a Breaking Point

    Pink, a former speech writer for Al Gore is recognized as a “rethinker” an expert on our ever-changing world of how

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About Off the Cuff

Ever wondered what your boss eats for breakfast? Or why he or she works 24/7? Off the Cuff takes you outside the boardroom to show you what high-impact leaders do off the clock. Every week, corporate tycoons will answer questions about what they like (and loathe), what makes them get up in the morning, what inspires them, and what makes them the most proud.