As I reflect on this past Easter Weekend with friends and family, and I look to the incredible opportunities that lay ahead, I feel deeply grateful for the experiences and opportunities I have had. Gratitude is absolutely one of the key components to happiness and success. As an entreprenuer and or business manager, [...]
During a recent business trip to vegas, I took the welcomed opportunity to eat at one of my favorite restaurants, The Cheesecake Factory.
Their chicken madeira is truly a cullinary marvel. The texture and flavor are satisfying to the last morsel.
Unfortunately, The Cheesecake Factory is all corporate owned. I called their corporate [...]
To start a success business in Asia or to bring an existing business to Asia requires a very good grasp of the culture you are working with. Culture is more than just the language they speak, or the clothes they wear. (Those are perhaps the least important things to grasp). Understanding history, [...]
Be it business, academia, relationships, politics, spirituality or life in general. I do believe that integrity is the bottom line.
In our subjective world however, where black and white seem to stream together into blurry greys, I find I often need an objective metric to pull things together again.
Rudyard Kipling identified a number [...]
I hear a lot of the statement, “John, I have this great idea…” The simple truth is there are billions of great ideas out there, but the person that makes it happen is truly unique.
Listed below is a basic frame-work I developed to teach an introductory class to help people without prior business experience [...]
Today was phenomenal. I had the opportunity to go with my friend and business associate David Kasteler (an amazing person himself) to meet with some of the most incredible men I have had the privelage to have known. Dan Mabey, Ken Dehyle and Kelly Sheppard. Each of these men are accomplished entrepreneurs [...]
When I was in 4th grade, I remember learning about the problem of landfill waste and drawing up what I felt was a grand concept to compost waste and create land in floating barges in the ocean. I drew up plans with areation modules, anchoring systems, etc. When I learned that the Japanese had [...]
It’s been a while since I last wrote. Here’s a quick update.
I got engaged on July 12th and married on August 24th to Lenita.
We really expanded the Free Books program through Worldwide Book Drive.
The ground work has finally been laid for a book retail site I’ve been working on [...]
The other day a young friend of mine called me up and asked, “John, with all of the work and time and travel it can take to start your own businesses, how do you find time for your family?” My first response was to ask him how many people had a steady 9 to [...]
I am the fourth of thirteen children, born to Mr. and Mrs. Merle and Lark Keller. I grew up in a small home nestled deep within the west side of Salt Lake City. My dad is an American-born German who grew up in Chicago and is now an electrical engineer. My mom is a [...]