The Dynamics of Change and Fear
Presenter:
Carly Fiorina
Time:
3:56
Summary
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP (1999-2005) talks about the dynamics of change and fear in this lecture to Stanford University students offered in May, 2007. She notes that entrepreneurship is about risk-taking, and this is always associated with tackling innovation.
Transcript
So what do I know about change? First thing I know is that everybody is afraid of something. Everybody is afraid of something. All of you are afraid of something all of us are afraid of something. What distinguishes people who are successful in their life from those who are not, is what do you do with your fear.
Some people are held back by their fears, and some people choose to move ahead in spite of fear. Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting, in spite of fear. But because everybody is afraid what most of the time people are afraid of, is something new. The essence of entrepreneurship is risk taking, the essence of business is risk taking, taking a risk is all about trying something new. And yet, as people go on in their lives, they become afraid of trying something new. And so change is always resisted always.