The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. -- Jean Giraudoux
Should Entrepreneurs Lie?
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Re: Should Entrepreneurs Lie?
#52Tough call, but here's the reality of business: everyone ends up "lying", even the people who do their best to be honest (those tend to fall into the overconfidence camp). Some people are just overconfident or have sunny reflections on the past, but everyone lies, and mostly about things of no consequence-- why they left their last job, who they know, their relative rank and responsibility in previous companies. I ge…
No. Everyone does not lie about those things.
If I were to be in a relationship with you and I found out you were lying about this sort of thing I would be highly pissed.
Re: Should Entrepreneurs Lie?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I took out "most". That was far too strong a statement. I respect myself. However, I'm aware of human nature as it actually is. Most people don't even like the truth. They despise the reality around them and need to be fed a fiction in order to function. The facts-- that good people often fail for varying reasons, that life is inherently unfair and often dark-- are so disquieting to them that they shut them out. This…
the problem with "If I feel that this is not the case, or become isolated, I'll jump ship on a dime. Also, if I'm ever passed over for a plum assignment that is within my capability, I'll launch my resumes that afternoon." is not that you will leave if your needs aren't being met; that is expected in any relationship. The reason why that raises a red flag is that it implies that you won't take action to educate yours…
If you want to hire someone who will be ambitious and get stuff done on their own, why would he want to do that stuff for you when he could be doing it for himself?
Re: Should Entrepreneurs Lie?
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
the problem with "If I feel that this is not the case, or become isolated, I'll jump ship on a dime. Also, if I'm ever passed over for a plum assignment that is within my capability, I'll launch my resumes that afternoon." is not that you will leave if your needs aren't being met; that is expected in any relationship. The reason why that raises a red flag is that it implies that you won't take action to educate yours…
If you want to hire someone who will be ambitious and get stuff done on their own, why would he want to do that stuff for you when he could be doing it for himself?
starting capital and risk tolerance, mostly. Getting a business to the 'ramen profitability' stage can be a long and difficult task.
Also, some people prefer to not deal with 'business stuff' at all.
Obviously there is a continuum between 'only does exactly what he is told' and 'runs the business without me' and most people are somewhere between that. I'm just saying; people who quickly return to idle after a task is done rather than seeking out more work are significantly less useful.
Also, people who can't tell me when they are ready for a new challenge (or that they are being shoved into water that is too deep) are significantly less useful than those who can.