Dmitry Linkov

I’m not posting a lot last days. This is because I’m rethinking a lot of things.

The first result was the previous post - about absent of rules. Suddenly, reading a business book, I realized this very clear. I just took the statistics of what does the great businessmen did to get to the top? And the only thing was - they were innovative and work hard. Of course luck was also important and environment and many many other things. Anyway - I didn’t find that they read business books or graduated in famous business schools.

And then I just stop reading business literature. Of course - there are a few more books on my shelf that I will finish with in a few months. But now I mostly read fiction and news. And you know what - I feel different. My imagination starts to work harder, I got new ideas, new thoughts.
Let’s see what’s next…

Tags: no rules, literature, success

The only rule is - there are no rules. It’s so hard to understand! You always seek for some magic recipe or scheme of what to do in order to be happy/rich/famous etc. But the only thing you can do is to work hard and get what you want!

And forget about the rules!

There are a lot of ways of doing things. Some managers are growing inside the corporations and then blast, other organize their own business and blast. But in general - they are all in one reality.

Another realities, such as financial or governmental, also exist. But we will not talk about them right now. What we will talk is the Virgin reality created by Richard Branson. This is also management and corporate world, but it seems to me that Richard found something very very different from everybody else.

I’ve finished reading his second book and this is not a book about business or management. It’s about a man, about being strong, about dreaming and willingness to change the world. Richard has a dislexia - but it didn’t impede him. Books aren’t the matter of his success. What is? Maybe his revolutionary behavior, maybe character, maybe something else. What I think - he was always honest to himself, and this helped him in his life.

What I think - this reality is very important. I even not think about it - I feel it. And I’m very thankful for the books Richard wrote - because they make you feel, they make you understand that the rules are only in your head!

Tags: realities, Virgin, Richard Branson