What are young entrepreneurs at Stanford University – striving to build world spanning mega tech corporations – taught at their first course?
What are they told to be the basis of ALL success in the world?
Are they led to impress people with their nitty-gritty high-end business know-how?
Are they taught to dominate the market with the latest AI strategic tech marketing?
Are they told to search for the cheapest producer in China and further support slave labor?
Well, leading Professor Tom Byers gives them five simple rules.
In his opinion, these are the foundation.
They are so simple, it’s humbling that these are obviously missing badly in our world.
Otherwise there would be no need to teach them at that point.
If everybody would do these things as a standard, if everybody would live by them, there would be no need whatsoever to even mention those rules.
But here we are. In a world where we are glad to hear some obvious truths.
Being not a professor and being not an ingenieur, I would phrase it like this:
Never miss to practice the scales. So let me call these The Scales For Life.
Tom Byers’ Rules are:
1. Show up on time.
(Well, I never wanted the negative attention and head turning. I also could miss something. So I like being on time. In fact, I always plan some extra time for unexpected delays always can occur. My notorious punctuality is getting on peoples nerves.)
2. Be nice to people.
(No one needs a further explanation of that.)
3. Do what you say you’ll do.
(Don’t be flaky. Today this, tomorrow that. No one likes flaky people. Be reliable!)
4. Deliver more than you promise.
(Of course. Don’t be cheap. Be generous. It makes you pretty!)
5. Work with enthusiasm and passion.
(Bored people will never make it to the top. They stay in the boring section.)
So. That’s the secret. Now you go ahead and build your universe-wide mega tech-giant something. Or practice very patiently your human scales. I just told you how to do it!
Be a good person. Very simple.
With so much love – and happy Easter
Anselma
p.s. In March 2025, Anselmas creative work is featured in a one-page portfolio article in the Austria music magazine “Perspektiven”.
We are proud of that.