INTRODUCTION

RENAMING ROLES

 

An entrepreneur is a person who takes responsibility for his or her economic well-being; a leader is a person who takes responsibility for the impact he or she makes on the world. However, that impact, whatever it may be, is in fact made up of myriad causes and conditions. The wise leader, then, is forever a student of the causality that makes up her endeavor. It’s about knowing all those layers of the matryoshka doll: If you’re trying to create an app that will change peoples’ lives, what are the elements of that change? And which people? And how will you test that? And who could build such a thing? And what mental state would that person have to have to build at his best ability?

The questions will keep unspooling; ...

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