The Religion of Entrepreneurship

In relgious communities, when someone is in need, the community rallies around them. People do kind things to other people just because it is the right thing to do. The startup world has a similar shared value; investors, CEOs, and service providers throughout the entrepreneurial ecosystem are always willing to lend a hand, donate time, and provide guidance and counsel.

→ VentureBeat

Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

Those nights of self-reflection during the early startup phase exposed me to a lot of my own demons and made me realize how little I knew. The biggest outcome of that conversation was the realization that companies and startups are essentially a reflection of a founder. If a founder doesn’t realize that, then it is going to be extremely difficult to build a long-term business.

→ Om Malik

Pope Benedict XVI and the Leadership Issue No One Wants to Talk About

Because we want to believe, on some very romantic level, that leaders are born. That they’re superhuman. That they’re cut from special cloth, that they’ve descended from Mount Olympus to help all of us. We want to believe that because it gets us excited about signing up to work with them. It kindles our hope that people with power have a sense of great responsibility and have answers that we don’t see.

→ Harvard Business Review

Cheers To You

You can’t plan anything in life. For the longest time I believed the illusion of control through the long-term plans we make and quickly learned that I was wrong. Little did I know that in this short duration of my journey, I would learn more about my purpose than anything I could have imagined for myself.

→ Falon Fatemi