Comments on: Are Entrepreneurs Control Freaks?

By: Losing It All and Starting Over | Men With Pens

Losing It All and Starting Over | Men With Pens — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:56:15 +0000

[...] is only an attempt that didnâ€™t turn out as expected. So what does work? Where did I go wrong? How can I fix this? What other routes can I take to reach my [...]

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Men with Pens Web Content Writers and Freelance Writing Services — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:00:25 +0000

[...] of taking a day off and returning to fires burning all over the place. Maybe I was being a control freak and couldn’t let go. Maybe I thought I’d have a great day of riding only to come back [...]

By: James

James — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:18:06 +0000

@ Jessie – I’m learning to take advice

By: Jessie

Jessie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:43:10 +0000

Wow, so funny. I’d have to say that my entrepeneur husband almost totally fits that description. He can take correction and advice, though. That’s one of his most valuable qualities. Very funny blog!

By: Why it's wrong to confuse Hamburger Managers with entrepreneurs | Slow Leadership

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:40:12 +0000

[...] March 7th, “Men with Pens” ran this article suggesting that entrepreneurs are basically control freaks with a bad case of ego hyper-inflation. [...]

By: James

James — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:23:42 +0000

(I’m assuming that you don’t speak French. Si je me trompe, milles pardons.)

By: James

James — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:22:37 +0000

@ John - Hehehe... Go read this post. I quote: What I discovered was that â€œentrepreneurâ€ is pretty close to a four-letter word: Jerk.

By: John Lockwood

John Lockwood — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:18:41 +0000

I think le mot juste in this case is not entrepreneur, but jerk. John Lockwood's last blog post..Selling Your Writing Online (Part II: The Right Way)

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:16:34 +0000

@Cindy: The only time I pose the coffee question is if I know how it’s going to be taken. Usually, that’s just with James, because it’s a great way to get him to back off from a rant at me when I first wake up. I don’t drink coffee, so it takes me a considerable amount of time to start functioning coherently.

Honestly, I doubt that Tony needs defending. He’s going to speak his mind, and while it does rub me the wrong way at times, I realize that’s just how he is. I don’t take it personally. Everyone is at liberty to express their opinions. It takes a lot to get me to the point to tell someone to piss off, and I know that if and when I reached that point, Tony would probably appreciate it if I told him that flat out.

The descriptions and opinions expressed here by me are extremes, I realize that. I know there are a million shades of gray between the visionaries and the tyrants. It’s like that with any personality profile you run across. But often times, the more you go to an extreme, the more you become the opposite.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and commenting. I hope you continue to come back to read more.

By: Cindy Dashnaw

Cindy Dashnaw — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:44:36 +0000

Sorry I wasn’t around yesterday to defend Tony. If someone said to me, “You haven’t had your coffee yet, have you?” I would take that as a passive-aggressive, highly smartass remark meant to do nothing but tick me off — unless it was someone who I regularly bantered back and forth with in that tone.

It sounds to me like Harry was describing a narrow-minded tyrant, not a visionary entrepreneur. I don’t think the two are necessarily synonymous.

And the photo? Pure genius — it certainly got everyone’s attention!

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