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How do you overcome feelings of inferiority in business? | Virgin

How do you overcome feelings of inferiority in business? | Virgin : It’s a shame that people shut down ideas because they’re worried about being crushed by people who are supposedly better educated than them. This is all about fear of failure. In my opinion, entrepreneurial drive beats a fancy degree anytime," writes the Virgin Group founder. "I didn’t go to a prestigious university; in fact, I didn’t even finish secondary school. I suffer from dyslexia and couldn’t keep up with my studies as a teenager. I didn’t fit in at all. Sadly, my instructors and the curriculum they taught made me feel lazy and dumb. So I turned my attention to something I was passionate about, which was producing Student magazine, with the aim of giving a voice to young people like myself. "And a wonderful thing happened: Following my passion gave me drive and purpose. My mind opened up and so my world. The headmaster gave me an ultimatum, forcing me to choose between staying in school or pur...

The Uber CEO who arrived in the US with nothing

> PLUS: Andy Rubin's OS for everything, Sheryl Sandberg's accidental Facebook revolution, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella. View this email in your browser logo 11.26.17 Like it or not , Silicon Valley companies often make themselves in the image of their leaders. Apple was all Steve Jobs: part genius, part headphone-jack-thieving jerk. The ousted Travis Kalanick was Uber incarnate : swaggeringly confrontational, in love with just crossing the lines of law and decency. But who is Dara Khosrowshahi ? Before Khosrowshahi was the CEO of Uber, he was an immigrant who had lost his home and country to the Iranian Revolution. Bullets ricocheted through his family's once luxurious compound as gunmen targeted wealthy neighbors; the Khosrowshahi family fled to France, and their manufacturing business was nationalized. By the time they reached A...