There are 2 types of people. How many times have you read or heard the beginning of this propagandas declaration? A lot of us are dangerously famous for categorizing and placing people in boxes to understand them better. In a business world of diversity and an unforeseen future in technology, economics, and communication, one would say that those 2 people who differ in types would have one major item in common; mortality. Those 2 types of people are the living and the dead. Dear Social Entrepreneur Leader, who do you serve? Where is your focus?
With so many leadership types and styles, I eagerly admire Servant Leadership. Per Wikipedia, “Servant Leadership is both a leadership philosophy and set of leadership practices. Traditional leadership generally involves the accumulation and exercise of power by one at the “top of the pyramid.” By comparison, the servant-leader shares power, puts the needs of others first and helps people develop and perform as highly as possible.” As a social entrepreneur that owns two online businesses, a Career Coaching firm, and a publishing enterprise, I understand the importance of connecting with people and helping them.
A Motivational Speaker & T-Shirt Designer, Rod Edwards, first told me that “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”. On social media, people want to relate to you. How can you say you truly help people or even try to connect to people if you show the demographic how much poorer they are compared to you. Social Entrepreneurs/Authors, Dante Gibson, Ben Gothard, and Jason Taylor noticed trends of Online Personalities on Facebook living separate and very different lives offline. Gibson, says “Some Social Entrepreneurs tend to ignore major factors in the social aspect of it; There are usually people involved that you have to connect to.”
Gothard says, “In order to make a significant impact on the world, you need to serve as many people as you possibly can in whatever manner you can possibly serve them. Whether this is through a team of people who help you accomplish or through your own individual efforts, serving others is the path to financial freedom, personal success, and a life of happiness.” Taylor, Air-Force Veteran, lives by this motto from being an employee to becoming an entrepreneur, “Service Before Self.”
Some newer friends to me Clinton Senkow, Influencive COO & Co-Founder and Rob Farjardo, Author, Millennial Keynote Speaker, and Adviser at Fownders both are great examples of what an online Social Entrepreneur looks like. You will not find either Social Entrepreneur presenting themselves unapproachable online. These leaders create more leaders, they don’t create followers. I encourage you to connect with everyone in this article for great advice and encouragement on Social Entrepreneurship and witness them serve their audiences of leaders.
An entrepreneur is driven by change and wants to make an impact. Millennial Entrepreneurs are drawn to social entrepreneurship usually by the perception of fame and vanity, but when they begin to understand the concept of Social Capital, they begin to gain clarity that their lives are not about them. We, the millennial entrepreneurs,
· Encourage you to take more calculated risks
- Become unreasonable
- Assemble a team based on your strength and weaknesses, and you will find yourself and dream further than you ever thought
- Give a person vision who is unstoppable
- Give a driven person direction
- Hire people who are smarter than you
- Celebrate differences
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
- George Bernard Shaw, Man or Superman
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