Week 15 here at SolarAcademy.
Accomplishments last week:
- I finalized the draft version of the intro video for the “Become a Solar Entrepreneur” course. Click here for a preview.
- Moved advisory projects forward
- Evaluated a number of investment opportunities
- Advised a number of companies in the solar industry
To-do’s this week:
- Edit and improve the HeatSpring page for the “Become a Solar Entrepreneur” course
- Create a SolarAcademy page introducing the course.
- Make further progress in the course content (Modules 1 and 2)
I picked the theme of transparency for this week’s entry. There is a lot of power in being transparent, vulnerable, open, and honest. So many entrepreneurs keep their ideas and many other aspects of their business secret like their lives depended on it. Yet they keep forgetting that it is rarely the ideas that count. It is the execution that counts. Truly. And what better way to make execution happen than to ask for the help you are needing.
The old paradigms might have suggested that others will copy your ideas and know what you are up to if you are all transparent about what you are doing hence encouraging everyone to keep their strategies and next moves secret like the moves of two poker players. Yet we are living in a world that is getting smaller and smaller where we are all realizing our common connection to each other and that the future cannot be a single winner reality or the reality of a New York City developer as a friend of mine likes to call it. “Either I win or you win.”
Inevitably, as we are coming close to exhausting our planet’s resources, the goal of the game will change from winning (or maximizing returns only for our domain or entity) to winning together. As that change happens the way the game is played will naturally shift from hardcore competition to co-opetion or maybe even pure co-operation. And that game implicitly requires more transparency and more vulnerability.
So why not try being a notch more transparent and a notch more vulnerable in our strategies and communication… and see if it works.
Well… even if the world might not be doing that just yet, I am starting to…