Comments on: Learning from the world’s youngest billionaire https://erolfox.com/learning-from-the-worlds-youngest-billionaire/ Clarity for leaders who know there’s more Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:37:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Erol Fox https://erolfox.com/learning-from-the-worlds-youngest-billionaire/comment-page-1/#comment-8170 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:56:46 +0000 http://inherentexcellence.com/blog/?p=545#comment-8170 Ah, great point! There are two kinds of “complain”:
1) expressing dissatisfaction, as in “filing a complaint”
2) the victim: something is happening “to me” and I am helpless.

I agree that there may be some people with millions of dollars that act like a victim, complaining that they are powerless. But, are they “successful” or do they just have money?

In fact, I bet rich victims are pretty rare, if they exist at all. I would suggest that MLK Jr. was a successful man. A man striving consistently towards his worthy ideal. He did make several clear complaints about a situation that had to change. Yet, he was not complaining, not coming from victim, or he never would have had the power to take each step. His focus was on solutions, which is where money is earned. Solutions to problems.

Thanks for the clarification!

]]> By: Joe Rose https://erolfox.com/learning-from-the-worlds-youngest-billionaire/comment-page-1/#comment-8132 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:42:14 +0000 http://inherentexcellence.com/blog/?p=545#comment-8132 Erol, you’ve come a long way from visual basic stuff at SST. All interesting stuff. It’s not true however that successful people don’t complain – I have worked for a few very successful people (if $ in the bank is a measure of success) and when something has not been done exactly when they wanted it done, they would complain very forcefully.
I think what you mean to say is that they are very good at moulding their public image, to the extent where they don’t want to be seen to be complaining in public… in private, Zuckerburg is probably quite pleased that Apple Ping isn’t gathering much momentum and that Google Wave has been cancelled, for instance. There are lessons from history here though – Microsoft partnering with 3com to try to bring down Novell with OS2 LAN Manager and then NT etc. – that battle was eventually won with Win2000 and the Active Directory in particular – nearly as good as NDS, but easy to setup and operate. It will be more interesting to see how Zuckerburg behaves when he has some serious competition, which is inevitable…

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