Life entrepreneur is a very unique book dripping with overwhelming motivation oriented stories of different people. As we know, life is full of challenges and successes often come afterwards. The inspirational stories or testimony of people featured in this book also incorporated various leadership characteristics that made their story blend perfectly with the focus of this class. Many people of different background and diversity all has unique stories that defined who they are or who they once were.
Considering the fact that entrepreneur is broking into four crucial components namely: creation, commitment, ownership and risk, are evident that it is a phenomenon that open doors for groundbreaking innovations that often go further to create …show more content…
Though Rob's first opportunity was an internship with IBM. At that time, technology was just emerging into a new era and Rob happened to witness this emergence. During this period, Rob had a separate vision that was different from what was going on in a rather bureaucratic IBM. He had passed on other options like Hewlett-Packard and eventually settled for a software start-up (Microsoft) in Bellevue, WA. He figured the team, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, are smart, intelligent and are visionaries hoping to explore the untapped resources that can deliver the cutting-edge technologies that we enjoyed today. Rob went on to spend 10 yrs. with this technology revolutionary team. He eventually decided to leave to really find his niche of what he really wanted. In the summer of 1993, he travelled to Germany, Greece and Egypt just to get time away to think through his options. He eventually returned to Microsoft, took a consulting job to investigate how internet might develop into a …show more content…
Since Paul worked at rustic farm where they make ice cream, this helped built is interest to one day own an ice-cream company. After college, he took a job with an audit and consulting firm and worked for other companies along the way. Even though he was doing all this, he still had the dream of owning an ice-cream company. Sometime down the road, while in New York, the opportunity emerged for him when he coincidentally witnessed an auction sale of his favorite ice cream store, since the store was going out of business. Paul took found the courage to get the hulking machine, even though he didn’t plan for it. On the same day, Adirondack Creamery was born. What he did epitomizes purposeful spontaneity.
In our existence, the ability to take action and make a difference is very important in all facet of life. Many has lost the ability to lead and the will to succeed due to their failure of taking action when it count the most. Many businesses has failed and many has thrived due to the power to move in a certain direction that will materialize the needed difference. In the words of John McCain, "courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears." This, a lot, can resonate
Considering the fact that entrepreneur is broking into four crucial components namely: creation, commitment, ownership and risk, are evident that it is a phenomenon that open doors for groundbreaking innovations that often go further to create …show more content…
Though Rob's first opportunity was an internship with IBM. At that time, technology was just emerging into a new era and Rob happened to witness this emergence. During this period, Rob had a separate vision that was different from what was going on in a rather bureaucratic IBM. He had passed on other options like Hewlett-Packard and eventually settled for a software start-up (Microsoft) in Bellevue, WA. He figured the team, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, are smart, intelligent and are visionaries hoping to explore the untapped resources that can deliver the cutting-edge technologies that we enjoyed today. Rob went on to spend 10 yrs. with this technology revolutionary team. He eventually decided to leave to really find his niche of what he really wanted. In the summer of 1993, he travelled to Germany, Greece and Egypt just to get time away to think through his options. He eventually returned to Microsoft, took a consulting job to investigate how internet might develop into a …show more content…
Since Paul worked at rustic farm where they make ice cream, this helped built is interest to one day own an ice-cream company. After college, he took a job with an audit and consulting firm and worked for other companies along the way. Even though he was doing all this, he still had the dream of owning an ice-cream company. Sometime down the road, while in New York, the opportunity emerged for him when he coincidentally witnessed an auction sale of his favorite ice cream store, since the store was going out of business. Paul took found the courage to get the hulking machine, even though he didn’t plan for it. On the same day, Adirondack Creamery was born. What he did epitomizes purposeful spontaneity.
In our existence, the ability to take action and make a difference is very important in all facet of life. Many has lost the ability to lead and the will to succeed due to their failure of taking action when it count the most. Many businesses has failed and many has thrived due to the power to move in a certain direction that will materialize the needed difference. In the words of John McCain, "courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears." This, a lot, can resonate