Subscribe to Real Leaders Iconic French luxury jewelry and watchmaker Cartier may have been founded by a man, but its Cartier Women’s Initiative is putting females at the forefront. Started in 1847 by Louis- François Cartier in Paris, France, Cartier became the official purveyor of numerous royal courts early on, earning a reputation as the…

Subscribe to Real Leaders We’re constantly being given advice on how to run our organizations or live our lives or whatever it is. It’s like going to a dinner party and you meet somebody and they give you perfectly good advice based on their own experience or their own data. For example, they’ll say to…

Subscribe to Real Leaders A lot of tough lessons have been learned about building enduring affluence that can be shared in hopes of making others’ journeys more successful. That’s why wealth management firm Balentine LLC’s CEO Adrian Cronje, a YPO member, partnered with chairman Robert Balentine to co-author the book First Generation Wealth: Three Guiding…

Subscribe to Real Leaders As a business founder and CEO, I spend a lot of time thinking about the profitability and sustainability of my company. I also spend a lot of time, money, and energy trying to be my best self. Then separately, I invest countless hours and dollars trying to do my part to…

There is a shopping center in Princeton, New Jersey, that exudes all the charm of a community where small businesses continue to thrive and residents take deep pride in local history. It’s the same place where Pasquale Romano used to go after school when he didn’t have sports practice or needed to work at his…

As we emerge from lockdown, our speeches all risk sounding the same because work from home has denied us fresh perspectives from travel, interactions, etc. How can I stand out from the crowd? Just last week, I decided to begin a speech with a focus on something almost everyone has experienced — and you referenced…

An amazing change has taken place over the course of the last decade. Business has woken up to the reality of climate change, that we’ve all been talking about, but are now experiencing firsthand.  Many business leaders have realized that our abuse of plastics, poorly managed waste and overconsumption has become a threat, and that…

I have moved from the Third World to the First World in my life. I was privileged to be poor before I became rich, to understand what it feels like to live in poverty without needing to read a book. I failed all my subjects at school, but the teachers never tested me on the…