Persistence….

The last few days I have been thinking …. 2005 is over and 2006 has started…I think I should feel happy and elated but somehow I don’t… I feel one year has been lost…. Lost to the anonymity of time… Television and news papers faithfully followed the tradition of reporting the newsmakers, the best and worst, the headlines the photos that defined the year gone by…. Sometimes I think they miss the hidden undercurrents in the zeal to cover the top stories…Something similar is happenning in the business world. In our zeal to look at the Gates’s, Walton’s and the Mittal’s we miss the Fred Smith’s who might linger anonymously amongst us…. (For the uninitiated…While an undergraduate student at Yale, Mr. Smith wrote a paper on the basic premise of FedEx and the hub-based distribution model for airfreight. What grade do you suppose a paper containing one of the best value creation ideas of the last quarter century would get from one of the finest academic institutions in the U.S?..... How about a "C."…… That's right, FedEx was only a "C" idea.). … the really inspiring part of this story is that Mr. Smith took his "C" idea and went on to build a successful company anyway.

What if a Fred Smith lingers in all of us but dies an unacknowledged death due to apathy….the lesson for me is to never look at a snapshot and say someone is a failure and someone is a star …. the latent churning and the path is more important….
It should be encouraged within us and unleashed to realize our true entrepreneurial potential....Persistence and insistence my friend…