![]() By believing we are all worthy of hard, true, big, right love. By trusting that the most compassionate thing of all is to release those we don’t love hard enough or true enough or big enough or right. By going out of one’s way to minimize hurt and humiliation. By considering how one might feel if the tables were turned. By being a friend, even if an actual friendship is impossible. By bearing witness to the undoing and salvaging what one can. By talking it all the way through and by listening. By having the guts to stand by one’s partner even while one is leaving. By acknowledging that one’s decision has caused another human being to suffer. By taking responsibility for mistakes and attempting to make amends. By expressing gratitude for what was given. By explaining one’s decision to leave the relationship with love and respect and emotional transparency. ![]() “One ends a romantic relationship while remaining a compassionate friend by being kind above all else. Instead, channel your focus and energy to. Relationships are elastic and they have elastic limits. Otherwise there is only lip service entrepreneurship soon becomes confined to the CEO’s speeches.”ģ17. I am sorry from the core of my heart for hurting you this bad. It requires a good many people who know what they are supposed to do, want to do it, are motivated towards doing it, and are supplied with both the tools and continuous reaffirmation. The reason why top management personalities and attitudes do not suffice in any but the very young or very small business is, of course, that even a medium-sized enterprise is a pretty large organization. Even then, when it gets to be successful the company soon ceases to be entrepreneurial unless it adopts the policies and practices of entrepreneurial management. In the few short-lived cases I know of, the companies were built and still run by the founder. It is far less certain, however, that top management personalities and attitudes can by themselves – without the proper policies and practices – create an entrepreneurial business, which is what most of the books on entrepreneurship assert, at least by implication. All it takes is to say ‘No’ to every new idea and to keep on saying it for a few years – and then make sure that those who came up with the new ideas never get a reward or a promotion and become ex-employees fairly swiftly. 4 Of course, any top management can damage and stifle entrepreneurship within its company. ![]() “Discussions of entrepreneurship tend to focus on the personalities and attitudes of top management people, and especially of the chief executive.
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