Make No Small Plans by Elliott Bisnow

Make No Small Plans by Elliott Bisnow

The consummate motivational playbook on how to think big and dream bigger, by the founders of the renown Summit leadership series.

Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal and Jeremy Schwarz founded the acclaimed Summit leadership conference with just a vision and a prayer. In 2009, with no money in the bank, and no special connections, they found themselves cold calling frantically as they struggled to make the hard transition from hosting free leadership events, to a ticketed event in Aspen. From those spare beginnings, they have built nothing less than a leadership empire.

Today, with over 500 employees, their Summit events feature movers and shakers like Bill Clinton, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Jessica Alba, Reed Hastings, and Blake Mycoskie, and they have acquired the largest ski resort in America to host over 150 mountain salon events.

In Make No Small Plans, they reveal the lessons and insights that can encourage every one of us to dream bigger and do something great with our lives. Among their takeaways in creating Summit:

- Be a cheerleader for new ideas--in other words, drink the koolaid.
- Don't be afraid to steal like an artist--we all build on the shoulders of others.
- Always presume abundance--never approach life from the perspective of scarcity.
- Recognize complaints and setbacks as a gift.
- Never get too far out over your skis--pursue what you know.

Every one of us has the capacity to go bigger, and have an impact on the world. In Make No Small Plans, the Summit founders show us how.

Margot Machol Bisnow is a writer, wife, and mom from Washington, DC. She spent twenty years in government, including as an FTC Commissioner and Chief of Staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and eight years writing a popular daily online social newsletter. Her son Austin has written successful pop songs and started the popular band Magic Giant. Her son Elliott founded Summit Series, a noted international conference series for millennial entrepreneurs, and led the purchase and development of Powder Mountain ski resort in Utah as a permanent home for their community. Her husband, Mark Bisnow, founded a national newsletter company, Bisnow Media, which was acquired in 2016. Their dog is the only one in the family who gets enough sleep.

Elliott Bisnow founded Summit Series, which has hosted thousands of young entrepreneurs at frequent events, and whose philosophy is that good business should be good for the world; Forbes called it The Davos of Generation Y. Summit is an investor in Uber, Warby Parker, and change.org, and has spearheaded philanthropic efforts that include building a seventy-one-square-mile marine-protected area in the Bahamas. Elliott cofounded Bisnow Media, which was acquired in 2016, and served on the United Nations Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Council.

Austin Bisnow is the lead singer of Magic Giant, the Los Angeles-based folk revival band known for anthem-like sing-alongs and euphoric live experiences, whose single Set On Fire charted #4 on Spotify's US Viral 50. He is also an accomplished songwriter and producer who has worked with artists, including John Legend, will.i.am, David Guetta, and Steve Aoki. Austin and his brother Elliott teamed with Grammy-winning producer Benny Blanco to cofound the Get Well Soon Tour, a nonprofit that raises the spirits of hospitalized children across America.

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ISBN 13	9781984822642
ISBN 10	1984822640
Title	Make No Small Plans
Author	Elliott Bisnow
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2022-04-12
Number of pages	288
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