Cameron Herold
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This guy was brought up from babyhood to be an entrepreneurial businessman and is bringing up his kids the same way, But, hey, what if your kid's passion is about playing the violin? As you say, the world might not need any more lawyers (especially now that my daughter is finished law school), but how about all kinds of passions for changing the world that don't involve buying on the cheap and selling to those who can pay?
It was clear that this talk was a 'coming out' for this remarkable Canadian. Give it a www (Well worth watching).
Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs | Video on TED.com
Mel- Great to see the mel-ted blog is up and running! I love the message he is saying here - that we should focus on identifying people's strengths, and nurture them. Something that has been a gap in the past is how do we, as a society, identify and nurture entrepreneurs?
ReplyDeleteOverall I think the content here is really strong. Good clear message, lots of good personal experience stories, and a good sprinkling of brain candy to share with one's friends as fun facts. (Did you know that bi-polar disorder is nick named the CEO disease? Fascinating!)
Something that bothered me was how he harps a bit much on making entrepreneurs out as some sort of victim i.e. "The only book I've ever found that makes the entrepreneur out to be the hero is Atlas Shrugged. Everything else in the world tends to look at entrepreneurs and say we're bad people." Really?
On the whole his visuals add anchors to the talk. The word slides in particular are nicely done.
On the whole I agree, that this is a great "coming out". In particular I think this video will resonate with budding entrepreneurs, and people who have been given special abilities that others have identified as disorders (bi-polar, ADHD, etc). WWW and GTPO (Good to Pass On).
~ Michael