Tag: Ability

  • When things fall apart…

    Hold it together. Often the difference between those who lead and those who follow is merely this. In life there will be instances when things would not go your way. We all operate on assumptions and it should come as no surprise that some of those assumptions turn out to be wrong. The more fundamental…

  • The Myth of Talent

    Talent is a myth, I was told… Now I believe it. In order to arrive at perfection in any area of pursuit, you need to put in 10,000 hours of practice. Let us put that time in perspective. If you put in about 3 hours of practice a day, which is hard, you will do…

  • An Important lesson on managing Teams

    I was wondering why it is, that we tend to have better meetings at Startups Club when the group tends to be smaller than when we have larger groups. I found the answer in a book called ‘The art of thinking clearly’. In 1913 Maximilian Ringelmann, a French engineer, conducted an experiment on horses! After…