Leading Entrepreneurship

Sun Tzu was a sissy… really? We’re not just calling a spade a spade here? The man was mocked by women and driven into hiding at the height of his success. Forget Sun Tzu, the real revelation is that Sisyphus was the sissy.

Forced with the impossible, and therefore unending and repetitive, mission to push a bolder to the top of a hill, Sisyphus’ challenge allowed us to coin the phrase “Sisyphean Task.”

I do understand that there are very good reasons why he was not, in fact, a sissy:

• He was a king
• He stood up to the gods
• He must have had some unreasonably impressive calves

These being acknowledged, you have to admit that Sisyphus was either insane, had absolutely no entrepreneurial spirit, or possibly a little of both.

Exhibit #1. Albert Einstein is most commonly attributed with “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Exhibit #2. Entrepreneurial spirit is “meant to cause the innovative and energetic practice to identify or create an opportunity and take action aimed at realizing it.”

Exhibit #3. Albert Camus philosophizes that “the struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.”

Are we kidding ourselves here with this man? Do results count for nothing? Where is the entrepreneurship?

Riddle me this: Was there no other way to get the bolder to the top of the hill, other than man-power?