Posts by Al Harlow

“You’ve gotta live to learn. You’ve gotta crash and burn.” – Darius Rucker Every career has moments where one mistake feels like it could end everything. This was mine. We’d spent three straight weeks of all-nighters chasing a $1.2 billion deal for one of our best private equity clients. No sleep. Endless revisions. By the…

“Living in the limelight, the universal dream” (Rush) I had a couple of hours to kill in Miami between a meeting and dinner, so I wandered out to the Delano Hotel’s tiki bar with my laptop and an iced tea. It started pouring — standard June in South Beach. There was only one other guy…