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Entrepreneur: You are Not a God

by Miki Saxon

3742394336_fee467ebef_mDid you know that when Roman generals rode through the streets for their victory parade they were required to have a person in the chariot who kept repeating “Remember, you are not a god.”

Twitter, Facebook, TechCrunch, blogs and other media are the modern version of the victory parade.

What we are missing is someone to remind them, “You are not infallible; you are not a god.”

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4 Responses to “Entrepreneur: You are Not a God”
  1. MAPping Company Success Says:
    February 1st, 2013 at 1:16 am

    […] The best advice is to not only stay close to your people, but also to your mirror and remember you are not a god. […]

  2. MAPping Company Success Says:
    February 21st, 2013 at 1:15 am

    […] only enough ego to avoid being […]

  3. MAPping Company Success Says:
    July 24th, 2015 at 1:15 am

    […] 2011 I wrote You Are Not a God citing the need for the same reminder to be given to entrepreneurs as the Romans gave their […]

  4. MAPping Company Success Says:
    September 10th, 2015 at 1:17 am

    […] the next time you find yourself salivating over a programmer who can crush Ruby, but thinks he is a god, think like Richard Branson, before doing “whatever it takes” to hire […]

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