![]() So tell us what what is being a CEO or being a senior executive? Why is it like being a French fry? So a college friend of mine developed this theory a long time ago, which is that the thing with French fries is you can always eat one more of them. So you're telling us that we'RE gonna be spending time at one of the fast food restaurants talking about French fries today. To answer all these questions and more, Matt Blumberg. If you're overwhelmed by the huge volume of stuff in your world, then this discussion about priorities, working less as saying no will change how you see your job. He says to me, why is being a CEO like a French fry? Before we get to the answer, which will come later. Today's guests asked me a question that I haven't been asked before. This is profit from the inside, with Joel Block insights to give your business the inside track. Matt is a co-author of the second edition of Startup Boards, set to be released in June 2022. Through Bolster, Matt has helped place dozens of directors with private and public companies, as well as advised many CEOs on building and running their boards. Matt has served on numerous boards and chaired many of them, including public company, private company, nonprofit, local community, educational, and trade association boards. Prior to Return Path, Matt founded the Internet division of MovieFone (now a division of AOL), worked in venture capital at General Atlantic Partners, and prior to that, was a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting. Under Matt’s leadership, Return Path won numerous employer of choice awards including #2 on Fortune Magazine’s “Best Companies to Work for” list. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny read their books and, in the back of their minds, hoped that soon their figurative escape would eventually turn into a literal one.Matt Blumberg is a technology entrepreneur, business builder, and CEO of Bolster, an on-demand executive talent marketplace that helps accelerate companies’ growth by connecting them with experienced, highly vetted executives for interim, fractional, advisory, project-based, full-time, or board roles.īefore Bolster, Matt was founder & CEO of Return Path, the market leader in email optimization, until its sale in 2019. In the situation of the orphans, figuratively escaping was not enough, of course, but at the end of a tiring and hopeless day, it would have to do. But by immersing themselves in their favorite reading topics, they felt far away from their predicament, as if they had escaped. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf’s evil in loco parentis ways. Figuratively, they escaped from Count Olaf and their miserable existence. They then went to their room and crowded together on the one bed, reading intently and happily. Violet chose several about mechanical inventions, Klaus chose several about wolves, and Sunny found a book with many pictures of teeth inside. The Baudelaire orphans walked back to Count Olaf’s neighborhood and stopped at the home of Justice Strauss, who welcomed them inside and let them choose books from the library. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters. ![]() If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. "It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between 'literally and figuratively.' If something happens literally, it actually happens if something happens figuratively, it feels like it’s happening. ![]() Lemony Snicket on Literal and Figurative Escapes
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