Risk & Business Magazine Cooke Insurance Group Fall 2015 | Page 18

One of the other learnings would be to find the best person
literally in the world that has done what you want to do before
or something close to it and talk to them about whether they
would want to be a guide to you in doing it again or whether
they would give you advice and counsel. Getting the very best
people in the world together on a team to help and support
you and then making sure you’re resourced properly and you’re
not under-resourced to undertake a large initiative or goal.
Can you explain the concept of celebrating your “death day”?
All of us have a birthday. There is another day we all are
going to pass during this coming year, and that is the
day that you’re going to pass on. We’ve already had our
birthday. The question is: what day will we pass on?

a lot of planning and breaking them down. But if you
set your mind to it, most things can be achieved.
What are the parallels between planning and
climbing mountains, and being an entrepreneur
and trying to run your own business?
First of all, let’s start with setting stretch goals. In business
planning, people often refer to them as Big Hairy Audacious
Goals. Setting an inspiring stretch objective with the buyin from your whole team together is a parallel. Setting
goals like mountains that you might want to summit or
large business goals you want to achieve would parallel.
The second would be in preparing. You have to take a step back
and understand: how can I become prepared? How can I train
for it? How can we develop the skill sets or resources required
in order to achieve this big goal and how do we put a team
together than can accomplish that and make that happe