Today, anything is possible
The business world has - and in many parts still does - follow a similar set of rules. Where you start out at the bottom. You put in the hard yards. You learn everything you can and you work your way up. If you are determined, you keep working until you hit the top. Then you’re running the company, something you had never really thought possible. Now, billion-dollar businesses are started by students from their dorm rooms.
The rulebooks of today look vastly different to what they did in our parents’ generation. This is mainly because the rulebooks not only keep getting re-written, they’re also being thrown out all together. The next generation is shaking things up. This is where so many disruptive and successful ideas have come from, because it’s these individuals that are no longer willing to accept the status quo. They see a better way and so they chase what they believe to be right. And that feeling is infectious. The StartUp world is its own economy, with tens of thousands of companies if not more. People see a better way of doing things and rather than waiting, they go and do it.
Likewise, even in the bigger businesses of today; it’s those that dare to say no to the rulebook, that say it’s time to change, that recognise that we’re all human and we’re screaming out for people to treat us the right way - those are the companies that are also proving that harnessing the power of humanity is something that is hard to compete with. Today, the individuals and companies that are different (and that aren’t afraid of being that way like Elon Musk) are the ones that are ultimately successful.
The business world has - and in many parts still does - follow a similar set of rules. Where you start out at the bottom. You put in the hard yards. You learn everything you can and you work your way up. If you are determined, you keep working until you hit the top. Then you’re running the company, something you had never really thought possible. Now, billion-dollar businesses are started by students from their dorm rooms.
The rulebooks of today look vastly different to what they did in our parents’ generation. This is mainly because the rulebooks not only keep getting re-written, they’re also being thrown out all together. The next generation is shaking things up. This is where so many disruptive and successful ideas have come from, because it’s these individuals that are no longer willing to accept the status quo. They see a better way and so they chase what they believe to be right. And that feeling is infectious. The StartUp world is its own economy, with tens of thousands of companies if not more. People see a better way of doing things and rather than waiting, they go and do it.
Likewise, even in the bigger businesses of today; it’s those that dare to say no to the rulebook, that say it’s time to change, that recognise that we’re all human and we’re screaming out for people to treat us the right way - those are the companies that are also proving that harnessing the power of humanity is something that is hard to compete with. Today, the individuals and companies that are different (and that aren’t afraid of being that way like Elon Musk) are the ones that are ultimately successful.