Week 10:
The Challenge to Become
  • Our needed conversions are often achieved more readily by suffering and adversity than by comfort and tranquillity...
  • The reason charity never fails and the reason charity is greater than even the most significant acts of goodness he cited is that charity, “the pure love of Christ” (Moro. 7:47), is not an act but a condition or state of being. Charity is attained through a succession of acts that result in a conversion. Charity is something one becomes.
The Heart of Entrepreneurship
  • Managers describe entrepreneurship with such terms as innovative, flexible, dynamic, risk taking, creative, and growth oriented. The popular press, on the other hand, often defines the term as starting and operating new ventures.
  • How can I make innovation, flexibility, and creativity operational? 
  • At one extreme is what we might call the promoter type of manager, who feels confident of his or her ability to seize opportunity. This manager expects surprises and expects not only to adjust to change but also to capitalize on it and make things happen. At the other extreme is the trustee type, who feels threatened by change and the unknown and whose inclination is to rely on the status quo. To the trustee type, predictability fosters effective management of existing resources while unpredictability endangers them
  • The entrepreneur, at the other end of the spectrum, tends to ask: 
> Where is the opportunity? . 
> How do I capitalize on it? 
> What resources do I need? 
>How do I gain control over them? 
>What structure is best?
  • ... That means encouraging the timely pursuit of opportunity, the most appropriate commitment and use of resources, and the breakdown of hierarchy...
  • ...To foster this belief the leadership of the organization can: 
> Determine Its Barriers to Entrepreneurship
> Seek to Minimize Risks to the Individual for Being Entrepreneurial
> Exploit Any Resource Pool
> Tailor Reward Systems to the Situation

* Your emotional fingerprint is the foundation to human behavior
*As a person learns to validate their emotions internally...they gain the ability to beat unbeatable odds, overcome challenges, and meet and exceed goals because they are not at the mercy of external influences and stimuli.
*Discovering your emotional fingerprint unlocks the secret to personal success.
*This knowledge creates opportunity and opens the doorway to greatness.
*What motivates and drives me to feel important and accomplished?
*To be successful in life you have to unleash your creative powers in pursuit of your life's purpose.

License to Pursue Dreams
*  So 50 percent of what Google launched in the second half of 2005 actually got built out of 20 percent time.
* the key isn't that it's 20 percent or 1 day a week, it's that I think that our engineers and our product developers see that and they realize that this is a company that really trusts them, that really wants them to be creative, and really wants them to explore whatever it is that they want to explore, and it's that license to do whatever they want that really ultimately fuels a huge amount of creativity and a huge amount of innovation.

SUMMARY
I like that Kathy Huber was so focused in her life that she didn't realize she was only one of three women in engineering at the time.

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