This weeks’ video blog come from one of my (mental) mentors Russell Simmons from the Youtube.com courtesy of WSJDigitalNetwork channel. I have been following Russell Simmons career as a business mogul and I believe that his practices are the foundations of success. Within this video, Russell Simmons speaks on the foundations of being an innovator in life and business. “You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today”, states Simmons. God gives everyone many talents, at the end of the day, its up to the individual whether or not to use them. Russell also talked on the subject of leadership as the interviewer ask him question about changing up his leadership style as the business became larger. This video fall right in line with my class subject for this week as to being an “effective leader” and knowing your strengths and weaknesses.
The best part of this video for me was the topic of him stating that when he started most of his businesses, he started them alone. As the ideas would get bigger then people would approach the relationship of working together because they started to see his vision. I can identify with this statement, because that’s exactly where I am today. Some don’t see the vision but some people do. Russell speaks on the fact that most of his ideas (Rap, Def Comedy, Def Poetry Jam as well as the clothing line, people didn’t believe in them. As a leader, being persistent and diligent to the vision is the primary responsibility and not being afraid to fail if it doesn’t happen immediately. If no one sees it at first, they will and that’s when everyone will want to be apart of the vision realized. Enjoy the video for this week!
Gigi
Russell Simmons on Innovation and Business
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFcwQbmLso
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