THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Respect

"If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself."

- Spanish Proverb

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Rod Beckstrom

Rod Beckstrom is a serial start-up entrepreneur and co-author of The Starfish and the Spider: the Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations.

Rod has the gift of being able to design innovative organizations to support a product or idea. When he was still a student at Stanford Business School, he published the first universal mathematical model for pricing interest rate and currency swaps. At the same time he co-founded CATS Software, Inc., a risk management software company, out of his apartment with $20,000. Rod was forced to become an astute student of organizations when as Chairman and CEO he quickly grew CATS from a product idea into a worldwide company listed on the NASDAQ. He then sold the company for more than $100 million in cash and earn-outs.

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