Is persistence important in reaching a business goal?

David Wilk  (Author & Co-founder, Four Day Weekend)

David Wilk talks about the importance of persistence in attaining goals. According to Wilk, if your work is your passion you need to be willing to do the work and stay with it if you want to achieve success. He shares his experience in sustaining his business and explains how improvisation can help you learn to fail fast and move on to the next positive step. Wilk provides an example to illustrate the point that you need to move past failure to success.

David Wilk

Author & Co-founder, Four Day Weekend David Wilk is a Founding Member of the Four Day Weekend Comedy Theater. In addition to having performed more than 5,000 live shows, he also is a keynote speaking for corporate clients and his client list reads like a “who’s who” of the fortune 500. Dave and his Four Day Weekend colleague's new book, "Happy Accidents, the Transformative Power of Yes, And At Work and In Life", became a National Bestseller and the Four Day Weekend was recently named "Entrepreneurs in Residence" at TCU's Neely School of Business sharing their "Yes, And" philosophy and how it applies to business.

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David Wilk

Author & Co-founder, Four Day Weekend
David Wilk is a Founding Member of the Four Day Weekend Comedy Theater. In addition to having performed more than 5,000 live shows, he also is a keynote speaking for corporate clients and his client list reads like a “who’s who” of the fortune 500. Dave and his Four Day Weekend colleague's new book, "Happy Accidents, the Transformative Power of Yes, And At Work and In Life", became a National Bestseller and the Four Day Weekend was recently named "Entrepreneurs in Residence" at TCU's Neely School of Business sharing their "Yes, And" philosophy and how it applies to business.

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Vaishali Jain

Vaishali Jain

Sarder TV Anchor & Former Bloomberg TV Journalist

Vaishali has been working in the media industry & Journalism for more than 14 years. She had her own CEO talk show on Bloomberg TV India called Biz Lounge, a show that she anchored and produced. Biz Lounge explored the business aspects of each company, as well as the company's leadership, corporate culture, as well as each leader's personal side including how he/she spent their free time.

Prior to that, she worked as a Management Consultant in the finance industry in New York City. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Management with a concentration in Finance and her Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology.

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