Wednesday, June 24, 2009

What &How did they do to learn ?

Traditional CEOs in my opinion are taught in business schools to address four fundamental activities of the corporate office: leadership, strategy, finance, and governance. The learning for innovation & entrepreneurship required by the CEO in order to demonstrate it to his viewing audience, is learnt where and how, if at all?

Where did Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Jim Pattison, Stephen Schwarzman ,Norman A. Sabga, Guy Laliberte,Paul & Andre Desmarais,Arthur Lok Jack,Ted Rogers, Ken Thompson , Ratan Tata, Lakshmi Mittall, Li Ka-Shing ,Oprah Winfrey , Steve Wyatt,Stanley Ho,Matt Barrett( Barclays Bank), Jim Sinegal,Jacqui Safra , John Bond (HSBC) and yes even Lawrence Duprey,Lord Conrad Black, Martha Stewart , Bernie Ebbers, Bernie Madoff , Kenneth Lay, David Walsh ( Bre-X) and Sir Sandford Fleming learn innovation & entrepenurship? All empire builders, as described in the poetry of empire building R.Kipling in the poem "Mary Gloster" , the personage of Sir Anthony Gloster, and I quote :http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1855.html

"Not counting the Line and the Foundry, the yards and the village, too,
I've made myself and a million; but I'm damned if I made you.
Master at two-and-twenty, and married at twenty-three --
Ten thousand men on the pay-roll, and forty freighters at sea!
Fifty years between 'em, and every year of it fight,
And now I'm Sir Anthony Gloster, dying, a baronite:
For I lunched with his Royal 'Ighness -- what was it the papers a-had?
"Not least of our merchant-princes." Dickie, that's me, your dad!
I didn't begin with askings. I took my job and I stuck;
And I took the chances they wouldn't, an' now they're calling it luck. "


Why do some climb road bumps and others climb K2? All of the above are frugal, enjoy spending 33cents or less and getting a $1 or more value in product & service, understand the power of capital and project the wherewithal of confidence that they can and ought to have unlimited access to other people money to leverage as they so determine and take the first fruits of rewards for such action. All are great risk takers and thrive on taking risk once the risk element is first under their determination and all share a strong desire of anonymity in action until the results and rewards are reaped. Last but not least all have a carapace of ruthless in winning and winning well , competition is paramount once it is second to their position, it is live or die every time all the time , 100% personality and force of ego behind effort, focused in and on winning and nothing else, performance means profits and money is the catholic language of all wealthy individuals who lead. No foolish rambling about wealth in the journey with this lot , its get there now and get there as efficiently as possible , using other people's money and let me enjoy the rewards of again being the first. The truth be told, they excel at excellence in themselves and in those who they recruit to do their efforts. All have a good eye for talent and better yet talent that is controllable if only by them . Your comments?

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