The Piggyback Principle says that you ride on someone’s back or shoulders in order to accomplish a goal. You take their help, you borrow their strength, wisdom, and leadership – and you forge a path. The Piggyback Principle is not permanent, it is not how you will live forever, it is how you will get started – you will take support from those around you to grow and become better. The myth of “I got…
Remember this article the next time someone criticizes or tears down your little idea. With presumed minimal funding, an AI startup with vastly smaller resources just scared every other AI behemoth out there that is investing billions. It rings true of the Silicon Valley of Old. Any idea, no matter how many times it “might” have been done, can make an impact.
Wait what? I thought I was supposed to be the one who was going to learn from you. I’m the one that needs teaching, you’re the one that knows more than me? I thought you were the expert. I’m just the hack, what are you going to learn from me? The beauty of any new relationship, partnership, endeavour, is that neither of you is the expert, you’re both looking to learn and you both want…
Who do you want your team to be? More importantly, why do you want them to be that team? It’s great to know who you want them to be, but the question we often miss is why? It’s the why that’s going to help them get to where you want them to be, otherwise you’re giving them no reason to work towards something.
You try, you fall. That wasn’t the first step. That was the first attempt. The first starts now. Many don’t take that first step. Those that do, will stumble and fall again, deciding whether they should take that first step again. It’s all first steps, all the time. If you think you’re behind you’re not, as you stumble, there are less and less of us willing to take those first steps. Keep stumbling, keep stepping.