Swimming vs Splashing: in Water and in Management

A swimmer who makes big splashes in the water is not a good swimmer.

An executive who boasts about their management style is not a competent executive.

The birds that splash the most are pigeons and sparrows. They can't swim at all.

Executives who boast and swagger should brush up on the Dunning Kruger hypothesis. This will help them improve.

Yet, pigeons will never learn to swim.



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Ideas Are Photons of Light

In solar cells a photon of light dislodges an electron, which starts a chain reaction. This is electricity.

In business an idea comes to the entrepreneur and knocks them out of their sedentary state. This is the beginning of a startup journey.

The photon-electron collision is followed by many more knocks and particle interactions. That's the essence of electricity.

The original idea evolves into many more iterations, pivots and new ideas. That's the essence of the startup journey.

Electricity flows in any direction where it can find a conductor.

The first idea gives impetus but the direction is set by the obstacles along the way.

Electricity may flow afar but in the beginning there was light.

The startup journey may be winding and convoluted but in the beginning there was "a photon of an idea".

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