Archive for August, 2008
Marching ahead with small steps…
I stumbled upon this interesting post and could easily relate how I work towards my goals and how much I believe in this philosophy.
Patricia Handschiegel explains the importance of understanding how success comes in small steps.
The idea is to get started with your goals and keep working on it consistently in smaller steps. In short term, we may not see the rewards, but we have to hope that it will do in the long term. All the best!
What I’m Thinking? – from Twitter
I am still doing some interesting stuff on http://twitter.com/adityakothadiya that I mentioned a few weeks ago – post random, but quite meaningful
thoughts in less than 140 characters. Here are my latest ones -
I think it's very important to find the core, but it's more important to communicate it with others.
When you are saying 3 things, you aren't really saying anything. Please tell me, what's the most important thing. Period.
I think good leaders don't get into the
details of solutions. They just convey the intent. And subordinates
come up with their own solutions.
Is your startup idea a pill or a vitamin? Don't worry. Some people need both!
Give something that they want to take and not that you want give – can be the mantra of building an active community.
I hope you liked them. If you want to follow me on Twitter, here I'm – Aditya Kothadiya on Twitter
What Makes Them Entrepreneurial? #34
Their Excitement to Make Impact on a Significant Number of People
Targeted Audience: Entrepreneurs
Ben Casnocha asks a very interesting question on his blog.
My take is that in the short-term (0-2 years after founding): Yes. In the long term: it's not enough and a genuine passion for what the business is doing and the customers it's serving is a necessary additive.
If your business survives until the long-term, generating the passion shouldn't be hard. If you start a trash pick-up service, maybe at first you see it as just a cash cow business. After all, who can get fired up about waste management? But eventually, as the business grows, and you start to serve tens of thousands of customers, you can get passionate about the idea of impact on a large scale.
Impact is the entrepreneur's drug of choice and if a company gets to a point where it is impacting a significant number of people I would argue any founder / executive can find a way to become genuniely excited about the mission above and beyond simply making money (which is an acceptable if not ideal driver for the founders at the outset).
As said above, the desire to make money can be short-term motivation of any entrepreneur, but the desire to make meaning and impact on a significant number of people can be the main driver of all entrepreneurial personalities.
Note: To read more articles from this series, please visit: What Makes Them Entrepreneurial?
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WMTE? #32 - Their Ability To Work Unsupervised
WMTE? #31 – Their Egolessness Attribute
