Technology & Innovation — March 4, 2011

Entrepreneurship The Last Frontier

The quality of effective entrepreneurial leadership that I most admire combines a practical modesty with a frontiersman’s ability to step fearlessly into the unknown.

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Tim Askew: “For me George VI’s story is a tale that informs and inspires me in my own attempts to lead my company, Corporate Rain, from my own flawed foundation that is the heritage of being human. …The quality of effective entrepreneurial leadership that I most admire combines a practical modesty with a frontiersman’s ability to step fearlessly into the unknown. Perhaps entrepreneurship is truly the last frontier, now that all physical frontiers have been explored and conquered.”

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