Comments on: Online Entrepreneurs And Responsibility

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:10:24 +0000

Great post. Sue’s right, personal responsibility is easily one of the biggest problems/issues facing society today. If we could get everyone to take a little more personal responsibility, I think the world would be a better place almost instantly.

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By: Sue Hewitt

Sue Hewitt — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:32:34 +0000

This is all true about life as well as entrepreneurship. We should all take responsibility for our own lives as well as encouraging people to try and when they fail, support them and help them to learn from it.

Sue Hewitt

By: Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:56:03 +0000

Zakman, I’m glad that you are interested in discussing this issue and, as far as your comment is concerned, one does indeed have to understand that actions always have consequences and that, since us humans are flawed by nature, mistakes can always be made and eliminating this variable from the equation would be just plain foolish.

Best wishes,

Alan Johnson

By: Zakman

Zakman — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:09:21 +0000

Oh no Alan! Your comment tells me you’re calling off further discussions on this post. Are you? You’re not a quitter, are you?

By: Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:04:54 +0000

Hi there and thank you for your comments, it’s great to see that you have an excellent attitude as far as the issue of responsibility is concerned :)

Best wishes,

Alan Johnson

By: Monika Mundell

Monika Mundell — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:55:37 +0000

Very provocative post Alan,

You are so right in saying that we should take responsibilities. After all, it comes with the territory. When things don’t work out I always try to learn from them and then move on.

Even if I’m upset, I try to learn what I could have done better or different to avoid this from happening again. Admittedly this isn’t always easy as we’d like to think that we are right and the other party is wrong.

I suppose as entrepreneurs we constantly push our boundaries cause if we don’t we fail to grow.

By: Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com

Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:33:29 +0000

Great post Alan.

My dad used to say “to succeed you only have to be right 60% of the time.” My experience has been that number is even lower–maybe only 20% or so.

I fail often, try to accept responsibility but not dwell on it, then try something else.

@Zackman…

Winners are never tried for war crimes.

By: Zakman

Zakman — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:16:04 +0000

Hey Alan, thanks for this reminder. We think we know it, but we all have to be reminded time and again that it’s okay not to be perfect all the time.

There’s a world of a difference between knowing that you could be making a mistake and not knowing. That knowledge will prepare you to own up to it, if it is indeed a mistake. That would be an ‘educated guess’ or a ‘calculated risk’, as you put it.

Taking the issue away a little, who decides what’s a mistake? Post-It came about as a mistake, cause someone spilled some chemical in the P&G lab, and they found it works great as a paper sticker.

Did Hitler make a mistake? They say God is on the side of the big battalions. If Hitler had won the war, would we still say he was a bad man? That’s thinking out of the box, of course.

Annywyas, I’m not wroried. I’m awlays peferct. I neever make msitkakes.