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25 January 2010 at 8:33
new yorker | "The Sure Thing" : How entrepreneurs really succeed.
[The businessman] moves decisively. He repeats the good deal over and over again, until the opportunity closes, and - most crucially - his focus throughout that sequence is on hedging his bets and minimizing his chances of failure.
The truly successful businessman, in Villette and Vuillermot’s telling, is anything but a risk-taker. He is a predator, and predators seek to incur the least risk possible while hunting.
+ Malcolm Gladwell
Getting caught up. I don’t always, always like Gladwell’s pieces, but I rather enjoyed this one.
