Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide
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Consider the major problems we are facing.
Most are the natural results of too much reliance on institutional size and power and not enough initiative, innovation, and leadership from “little guys.”
Of course, the few who are entrepreneurs do an amazing [...]
Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide
This is part 1 of a 5-part article.
When America decided to follow Alexander Hamilton’s economic model instead of the Jeffersonian system, a number of changes occurred which now haunt our generation.
Jefferson envisioned a nation of small farm and shop owners that spread around leadership and prosperity, while Hamilton preferred [...]
I spent last Friday at a seminar with Roy H. Williams, the renowned “Wizard of Ads” and founder of the world-famous Wizard Academy.
He shared the following insight, which he learned from Mike Metzger:
“You meet 4 kinds of people on the ocean of life.”
“Those who drift just go with the flow. The wind and the waves [...]
If you’ve enjoyed Oliver’s articles on entrepreneurship, you need to read these three exceptional articles by Alan Webber (and particularly the third, though you should read them in this order):
Mindset, Game, & Match
Munger to Friedman to Diamond!
On Icebergs and Ducks
A few excerpts:
“If you look up the word ‘mindset’ in the dictionary, here’s what you get: [...]
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The Growing Popularity of Producer Education
Consider what leading thinkers on the needs of American education and business are saying.
In Revolutionary Wealth, renowned futurist Alvin Toffler says that schools must deemphasize outdated [...]
Do you know the roots of and reasons for your fears?
Paul Slovic, a psychologist at the University of Oregon, has spent decades studying how we decide what’s risky and what isn’t.
His studies have shown that how risky something actually is has almost nothing to do with how risky we think it is.
Slovic has [...]
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Disturb Us, Lord
Sir Francis Drake
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our [...]
In his book Freakonomics, economist Steven Levitt compares two boys.
One boy was white, from a Chicago suburb, and had “smart, solid, encouraging, loving parents who stressed education and family.”
The second boy was black, from Daytona Beach, and was abandoned by his mother, beaten by his father, and had become a full-fledged gangster by [...]
The great leader Gandhi was once approached by a mother who wanted him to have a few words with her son.
The boy was eating too much sugar and it was harming his teeth and diet.
When the mother asked Gandhi to talk to her son he replied, “I cannot tell him that. But you may bring [...]
…you spend more money and time on books than you do on entertainment.
…you stop waiting for others to solve the problems you notice.
…you trust your intuition more than the “wisdom of crowds.”
…you muster the courage to venture inside yourself and discover your intuition in the first place.
…you accept that problems aren’t “out there”; they’re in [...]
