The Self

I have been preparing questions for a series of upcoming interviews with a few budding and successful entrepreneurs. As I was chatting with Jarkko on IM, he asked: “Are you sending the questions out to entrepreneurs or posting them on your blog for visitors to answer?”

I suddenly realized, we have almost 500 subscribers and many of you are indy or run companies and blog as well. If you ask me, your answers are definitely going to be way more interesting than anyone I line up.

So, I challenge you!

Answer the questions I wrote below on your own blog. Come up with your own interesting question you wish you could ask other entrepreneurs. Explore the journey from technician to entrepreneur. Then link back here and comment so we can all go check it out.

I will compile a complete list of the respondents and do a brief promo of the top 10 most interesting responses! Peter & I will pick one lucky person with our favorite interview and one person who came up with the best original question not on our list and buy you each one book from my personal reading list.

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Professor Peter Elsea completely changed my view of what a person can do when he taught me that skill is nothing but a bag of tricks.

The thing is, just about anyone can express music to some degree. Anyone can make a picture, or cook a meal. It might not taste very good, but perhaps that’s simply due to a dearth of tricks in the cuisine bag.

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Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers

Sometimes greatness is in my own backyard and I never even know it. I was recently introduced to Ted through a client of ours in Israel. Ted is brilliant, funny, innovative and I can’t believe I missed out. And course happens to be less than 30 minutes away from my back door. So all I need is to figure out is who to knock off the list so I can get invited and then convince my wife that I can spend 6k on one-week orgy of learning, creativity and personal growth. Their website is as addictive as “cocaine” cheese, known to most of you as Tostitos Nacho Cheese.

I personally find this topic very difficult. I am not a humble person by nature. I love the chase and the struggle of business and I revel in the rewards. This weekend, Julie & I had the opportunity to sit in on a talk given by Chris & Terry Brady, co-authors of upcoming book, Launching a Leadership Revolution and an enormously wealthy couple who own some very large companies. The topic they decided to cover: humility in business.
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