via Business Insider by Kim Bhasin.
"We venerate entrepreneurs in our culture," said Gladwell. "They are our new prophets. Literally, we worship them. If you read the literature about great entrepreneurs, it is iconography," or "hagiography," he continued.
Are they worthy of this extreme level of reverence? Gladwell doesn’t think so.
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"So we need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating," said Gladwell. "They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders they wouldn’t be great businessmen. So when a businessman is a great moral leader, it is because they have maintained their conscience separately from their operations."
Malcom Gladwell is so Malcolm Gladwell.