Week 9

    6/22/24

Entrepreneur Journal

-Week Nine-

    Lessons Learned 

    One of the things that I took away from this week's reading was pretty interesting. It's such a simple thing that can have such a big effect in the long run of a business. It's kind of surprising to me that I took notice of this piece of advice but I did. In one of the videos the speaker refers to the fact that he purposely hires people who are "nice". He says that by doing this he can build a cooperative and functional team. He spoke about how even having only one selfish person on a team or board of directors can mess everything up. The selfish person will take advantage of the nicer people to get what he wants and this will ruin the integrity of the discussion. For these reasons, the entrepreneur said that he sought after and specifically looked for nice people to hire for his company. He saw the trait of being decent or nice as a very important and valuable thing for his company. I thought this was interesting. 

 Lessons not yet learned 

Maybe I need to think about how I can further develop into being a nicer person for these reasons. In the church, we refer to this type of niceness as "meekness" and the Savior says himself in his teachings that those who are meek will inherit the earth.

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