Blog - Matthew Powell

I love to remind myself of this quote from Jim Kwik: “You are the greatest project you will ever work on.”

When I joined my family business full time we didn’t have an explicit vision (direction), values (acceptable behaviors), budgets, etc.

Steve Jobs had a lot in common with the way you and I think about business.

A couple weeks ago I was driving back from lunch on a Friday when something changed.

My daughter has a morning routine she loves.

I was sharing with a group of family business CEOs recently how we Think In Centuries at Century.

This is the room that needs no introduction.

The summer before my sophomore year of college, my mom took me to JC Penney to buy my first big-boy suit.

The owner room is a difficult room to talk about.

“I’m a maker, Dada.”

“Stop jumping on the sofa!”

A couple of weeks ago I sat down to lunch and realized my favorite college basketball player of all time was sitting next to me.

My wife couldn’t resist.

I recently had one of Century’s leadership teams give me an “SSC.”

I had lunch last week with the CEO of a great bank.

My grandfather, “G-Dad,” wrote me a letter when I turned 16.

I was driving the other day with David Senra in my ear when he asked Marc Andreessen, one of the most successful venture capitalists alive, about his relationship with introspection.

It was a scary night.

Sunday afternoon in my daughter’s room.

I was across the table from someone I’d trusted as an advisor.