Are We Rome?

That was the title of a book I heard about earlier today. It posed the question in analyzing the final days of the Roman empire and comparing it to our times: Over extended Military, Crumbling of Society, Distrust of political leaders etc, etc, etc.
There certainly are many parallels and I would argue that history is full of such parallels.

I also heard something interesting regarding Dyslexia and entrepreneurs. Apparently a very high percentage, higher than the general population, of entrepreneurs suffer from Dyslexia. Why is that the case. Well there were a number of reasons given that were a result of their inadequacy with the written word.

• they develop better verbal skills
• they learn to delegate
• they learn to trust others to do their jobs

Napoleon was rumoured to have suffered from a mild form of dyslexia, however we all can appreciate his prowess on the field of battle. Wellington said that he was worth 40,000 men. His greatness as a general was in large part due to his being willing to delegate and trust his officers. So often in business we see CEO's who claim to be delegators but in reality they are not. Others delegate nothing and are proud of that. Then there are those who are actually shirking their own job and relabelling it "delegation".

Succeeding in business is becoming a greater challenge every day. Learning to delegate and trust your team will enable you to compete and avoid "being Rome" as it were.