Monday, January 09, 2006
Better Businessperson; Better Person
I started on a different blog topic tonight, but it quickly got out of hand. Rather than a short blog-length entry (and yes, I'm well aware that my blog entries are rarely anywhere near as short as a blog entry is "supposed" to be), this was turning into an entire chapter.
So I stashed it away for later use in a different form. But the gist of it was a riff on my oft-repeated refrain that you can't succeed at becoming a better business person without becoming a better person at the same time.
Yes, I know there are scumbags out there who use business to exploit others. But I've found that they generally face the consequences of their actions in one form or another eventually.
But I've found that truly succeeding in business requires you to understand more deeply the way that others—and you yourself tick. And that can't help but make you a better person.
Jeff
I started on a different blog topic tonight, but it quickly got out of hand. Rather than a short blog-length entry (and yes, I'm well aware that my blog entries are rarely anywhere near as short as a blog entry is "supposed" to be), this was turning into an entire chapter.
So I stashed it away for later use in a different form. But the gist of it was a riff on my oft-repeated refrain that you can't succeed at becoming a better business person without becoming a better person at the same time.
Yes, I know there are scumbags out there who use business to exploit others. But I've found that they generally face the consequences of their actions in one form or another eventually.
But I've found that truly succeeding in business requires you to understand more deeply the way that others—and you yourself tick. And that can't help but make you a better person.
Jeff
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