Leadership

This week in introduction to entrepreneurship we learned about disciple leadership. We learned about the reasons it is important to be trusted. Guy Kawasaki in aspects of building trust compared two types of people. The first type of people would be the bakers, while the second type would be the eaters. Eaters will eat as much pie as possible so no one else can have pie. They are in it to get as much for themselves. Bakers look to help others. They will bake more and make bigger pies to help people enjoy the pie. The baker tries to help everyone have a piece of pie. We should want to be bakers in our business. We should find the ways to help people all around us. 

We also learned about helping your business to be more successful is to hire nice people. Nice people will help other employees out. The team will work better together if they are nice.

Another thing I learned was about being a good leader. A good leader will take people to higher ground. A leader will cause things to happen. It is important to be uplifting to people around you. We don’t want to be the one who brings people down.

The last thing that I really found important and helpful was from the Jim Colins’s book, Good to Great. There are five statements that will help you be successful. The first one is good is the enemy of great. Don’t settle for good, when you can be great. The other thing is getting the right people on the bus. You need to find the right “nice” people to work with that will be willing to help others and work with a team peacefully. The third thing he said is that you need to possess these three characteristics: great product, believe you’re the best, and passion for your product. We will need all three together to be great.