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Try to live with the part of your soul which understands eternity, which is not afraid of death. And that part of your soul is love.
A Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy and Peter Sekirin
You're empowering the people most familiar with the needs and wants of the specific group of people you're trying to support. That's the only way you can scale. Wikipedia put control in the hands of experts to develop articles on virtually every topic known to mankind. Reddit gives control to moderators to develop and manage subreddits, which cover hundreds of thousands of different interests. Duolingo gave their members control over creating language courses and organizing local events. Every founder learns that the only way to grow their business is to delegate ownership to members of their team. If they can't let go of control, they become the bottleneck. To build community, you have to expand that same mentality beyond employees, and start distributing control to your customers It doesn't have to be volunteer based. Some companies opt to hire for local leadership rather than working with volunteers. This is how Yelp, the restaurant and small business review website, runs their community. Once a city has a large enough audience, they'll place a full-time community manager in charge of that location. They create the local newsletter, host events, develop local partnerships, and handle everything specific to that city. Other companies distribute control with financial incentives, allowing local leaders to earn profits through their work. This is how the TEDx program functions. If you organize a local TEDx event, you're responsible for running the entire event, and profits earned are yours to keep. Organizers are responsible for selling tickets, securing sponsorships, and managing the full budget for their programs. TED gives them a massive guide that walks them through everything they need to know to run an event. This creates a consistent experience across all TEDx events, while also giving the organizers a lot of autonomy to create a unique experience, select all the content, and make it more relevant on a local level. That balance of setting consistent guide rails that everyone works within, while distributing control and decision-making power to your members, is critical for your community to sustainably scale.
The Business of Belonging
David Spinks
In any case, I want to conclude this book with the idea that has underpinned all of what you’ve just read. That it’s admirable to want to be better businessmen or businesswomen, better athletes, better conquerors. We should want to be better informed, better off financially . . . We should want, as I’ve said a few times in this book, to do great things. I know that I do. But no less impressive an accomplishment: being better people, being happier people, being balanced people, being content people, being humble and selfless people. Or better yet, all of these traits together. And what is most obvious but most ignored is that perfecting the personal regularly leads to success as a professional, but rarely the other way around. Working to refine our habitual thoughts, working to clamp down on destructive impulses, these are not simply the moral requirements of any decent person. They will make us more successful; they will help us navigate the treacherous waters that ambition will require us to travel. And they are also their own reward.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
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