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    Stealing from Tony

    By Jeremy | October 5, 2007

    If you aren't regular readers of Tony Sheng's blog, shame on you! On Wednesday, he linked to two incredible articles that I have to archive here as well. Marc Andreessen (internet revolutionary; founder of Netscape) on career planning. Among other priceless pearls:
    All successful CEO's are like this. They are almost never the best product visionaries, or the best salespeople, or the best marketing people, or the best finance people, or even the best managers, but they are top 25% in some set of those skills, and then all of a sudden they're qualified to actually run something important.
    And
    If you're going to be a high achiever, you're going to be in lots of situations where you're going to be quickly making decisions in the presence of incomplete or incorrect information, under intense time pressure, and often under intense political pressure. You're going to screw up -- frequently -- and the screwups will have serious consequences, and you'll feel incredibly stupid every time. It can't faze you -- you have to be able to just get right back up and keep on going.
    Reminds me of something I heard Judy Peterson say last week at North Park. If I am offended, it means there's something left in me to offend. What exactly the connection is (in my mind at least) between Judy's thought and Marc's I hope to elaborate in the future. For now, let them stand on their own side-by-side. Barbara Nicolosi on heroes and story.
    What sets heroes aside from the rest of humanity is the willingness to assume a personal responsibility for public problems. As I will use the word, responsibility is assumed, not assigned, undertaken rather than imposed. I am interested in responsibility as a function of declaration rather than duty. This book is about people who take on responsibility where no one else would regard them as responsible.
    And
    There is a positive side to Holywood's desire to create heroes with a dark side. It is coming from a rejection of melodrama and sentimentalism. SENTIMENTALISM IS THE PROBLEM FOR US CHRISTIANS. We want to show that God is basically in charge of the world so everything is really okay. We want to give God the benefit of the doubt.
    And
    Being a hero doesn’t come out of nowhere. That you can’t be a hero in big things if you are unheroic in little things. You will not be up to the big moments unless you have made virtuous habits, and have cultivated a broad respect for others. And most of us are schleppy and lazy in our normal moments...
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    Topics: heroes, leadership, quotes | 1 Comment »

    One Response to “Stealing from Tony”

    1. tony sheng Says:
      October 5th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

      steal away bro! hope your birthday was a great one! ps – heard you met with colleen. neat connection – the world is getting smaller….