Week 9

This week in my entrepreneur class, we talked a lot about being leaders. I really like the lesson about leading with a small L. Leadership isn’t about being the boss. It’s about guiding a group of good people that may or may not have a skill set better than your own. It’s about trusting others to be trusted.

I also liked the example of bakers versus eaters. This example begins with the statement that there are two types of people in this world, bakers and eaters. The eaters of the world are people that can only think about how much pie they are getting and wanting more pieces of pie. The bakers are the people that find the opportunity to create or bake pie always. They are constantly looking for reasons to bake more pies. The take away from this is to be the baker. This way you can look outward as apposed to inward.

Another phrase I learned from is the phrase given by Carly Fiorina. She said that the best thing you can be capable of is to ask questions and hear the answers. She suggests to always keep learning. She said the difference between a “young” 60 year old and an “old” 60 year old is the fact that the young one kept learning all their life.