Have the Ambition to Succeed in Business

Summary

Ready to be your own boss? In this fascinating webinar, Steve Forbes shares what it takes to be a great leader and to succeed in business today, using examples from the past and today. Sign-up for the webinar today, listen anytime.

You will learn how:

  • Great leaders not only have vision but know how to build structures to effect it.
  • Great leaders motivate by doing what is right rather than what is in their self-interest.
  • Character matters in leadership.
  • A great leader is one who challenges the conventional wisdom of the day.
  • A leader must have ambition to succeed, but tempered with humility.

About the speaker:
Steve Forbes is President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine. He resumed this role in February 2000 after a leave of absence to campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Mr. Forbes assumed his position in 1990. Mr. Forbes is also Chairman of the company's American Heritage division, publisher of American Heritage magazine and two quarterlies, American Legacy and American Heritage of Invention & Technology. Mr. Forbes serves on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University, as well as on numerous other boards.

The company's flagship publication, Forbes, is the nation's leading business magazine, with a circulation of 850,000. Forbes and Forbes Global together reach a worldwide audience of nearly 5 million readers.

Mr. Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading of "Fact and Comment." A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The prize was formerly given by U.S. Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate.