Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders
This is a book based on probably the greatest debate of all times. How much of our behaviour is determined by genes and how much is determined by the environment? Clearly, there is no straightforward answer to this question. Many experiments have been conducted to resolve this issue but no large consensus exists.
Of course, the book’s intention is not to find a simple answer to this very important question. The book’s focus is only on the entrepreneurs and if there is some correlation between the greatest entrepreneurs of all the time. The problem here has to do also with the concept of time. So, we go back to the book “The Paradox of Time”. The problem lies because we view the past from the present. So, now that we know that someone has become a great entrepreneur we see his past with another eye. It’s like we could infer since his beginnings that he would become a great mind. However, I believe that this is not the case at all. I think that due to different circumstances he may have reached greatness. And then we try to prove ourselves that he was great even when he was a kid for example.
Related to the more general concept of genetics, I see a paradox there. There is a general agreement that genetics is far more important than the environment. So if we change or evolve it’s because our genes make us evolve. However, they take the stimulus from the environment. So, the possibility of change has always been in our genes. For the fact that we evolve in a particular time credit can be given completely to the environment. So, that makes the environment much more important, at least in my opinion.
Indrit Beqaraj
I agree somewhat to your paradox.
YanıtlaSilGenes are more important for they carry the potential to do or not to do a particular action which could prove to be one's chance to greatness.So just like Anakin which is in Starwars(if you did not watch it take a look at my blog "Anakin Who?"), he was this great warrior and he had in his genes the ability to become great just like his son. However, they chose different ways to reach greatness. So the environment was similar to both and the genes were the same, but they chose differently. So I must add in your equation the Free Will, which is affected by both equally but is stronger than the two together..
The environment is important but not that much. Every one have stayed sometime in the shadow of an apple tree. Not everyone thought of gravity though..
Chapeau Indrit for the analysis. If I become head of the state and I say I was able to become like that by meeting the right people and by learning from them, many won't believe. They will say that I perhaps had some hidden leadership gene or something. Anyways one should never let his/her childhood spirit die in my opinion and should never be a fatalist/predeterminist. So believing in the power of the environment is healthier IMO
YanıtlaSilS.K.
``The possibility of change has always been in our genes`` You can not expect to be a successful leader why you believe you have the right genes. Even why the book relies on scientific findings, that seems too early to be seen in practice. So, Scot Shane suggest this theory but doesn't briefly explain how it is going to be used in the business world.
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