I will share a couple questions with you and I hope you can answer them as well.
1.-What was Haykin's "toughest hurdle" as a business leader? Why do the risks of entrepreneurship seem worth it (or not worth it) to you?
Haykings mentioned that "The toughest hurdle" that he had faced as a leader was a particular case with a start-up where things just did not look like they were going in the right direction.
He mentioned that some people lost the path and for that reason the results were not the ones they expected he said: "It felt like a failure. It was heartbreaking to have to tell a team of fifteen people who had just put their hearts and souls into this project for the last twelve months of their lives, which we all thought was going to have a big payoff. The most difficult part as I was able to see was that he always thought in the team and their families, in how they will feel when see what was going on, he knew before hand that sometimes that happend but to face that was something really different.
I believe that this experience helped him a lot to not make the same mistakes in the future, even when is hard most of the time it is worth to make mistakes and learn from it.
2.-How did being a lifelong learner benefit Haykin's career? How could it benefit yours?
I think that to be a lifelong learner is good because nothing is said and won´t change. Things change all the time as he mentioned, today is hot in a summer day and tomorrow might rain even in a summer day. So too be able to learn everyday from our experiences and from what we see that happens around us is important. I feel that everyday change in small things help me make changes in my life and also to be aware of things that happen and to be focus on the path and be able to re evaluate my goals and the proccess.
If you want to learn more about Randy Haykin and this article, I highly recommend you to read his entire book or part of it in the Harvard Business School @
Harvard Business School or buy it in your favorite Book store.
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