Shifting Paradigms to Building Global Change

Book Review

Born to Build: How to build a thriving Startup, A winning Team, New Customers and Your Best Life Imaginable by Jim Clifton and Sangeeta Badal, Ph.d.

I was given an advance reading copy of Clifton & Badal’s new book “Born to Build.” Entrepreneurship is probably my most passionate intellectual stimuli so I am not sure of why it took me weeks to pick up the book and read it. Once I picked the book up — I could not put it down. After reading the book, I think I was not ready for the shift in focus of systemic economic change from anything other than the entrepreneurial process.

What the book delivered was an inclusive framework that expands the entrepreneurial effort and impact outside of the traditional profile. Builders can be entrepreneurs but they can also be others with the passion, perseverance, drive, skill, and experience to evoke meaningful and systemic change.

My favorite quote came from the first few pages of the book,

Successful Builders proactively develop behaviors that empower them to anticipate problems,overcome adversity, recognize opportunites, organize resources and take action to build something.

Literally, the first half of the book outlines the author’s four keys Not surprisingly the first and probably most…