5 Rules for Leaders
This post is inspired by a YouTube speech I saw by Simon Sinek. (You can watch it here .) Go after the things you want. Simon tells a story about a long line for some free bagels. The friend that he was with didn't want to stand in the long line. But Simon wanted a free bagel! So Simon walked up, reached between two people and grabbed a couple of bagels. The moral of the story is that some people focus on the thing they want while others can only see the thing that's preventing them from getting the thing they want. There is a caveat however. You're allowed to go after anything you want. You're just not allowed to deny anyone else the right to go after what they want. Sometimes the problem is you. In the 18th and 19th centuries there was a problem where women would die within 72 hours of giving birth. They called it the Black Death of Childbed (also known as Puerperal Fever). Doctors (surgeons) who performed autopsies during the mornings would call on women in the afte...