“Sometimes, in these meetings, everyone says the same thing. So [by working as a reporter] it’s nice to get people’s unfiltered opinions.”
Learning Journalism at the World Economic Forum’s Under-30 Meeting
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Davos Shuttle Talk
Goals, Not Skills, Make Leaders at Davos
In Davos, there’s a fleet of World Economic Forum shuttles to whisk people between the Congress Center, hotels, parties, side events, and meetings, just to name a few destinations. This gives us a window into their day and also lets us strike up interesting conversations. On the Line 1, we meet Sangeeth Varghese, an Indian leadership thinker as well as a founding curator of the Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum. “I work in the strategic consulting industry in India. I also founded a nonprofit organization for student empowerment—it is called LeadCap Trust,” Varghese says.
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
The WEF’s high-profile participants hold differing views on whether one can teach people to succeed as entrepreneurs, but they all support instilling business fundamentals and entrepreneurial principles in youth of all backgrounds and personalities.
The F-Word [Failure] Comes to the World Economic Forum
Let’s face it, failure sucks. Failing is neither particularly fun nor particularly rewarding. And yet entrepreneurs do it all the time. According to a recent study from Harvard, three-quarters of venture-backed start-ups fail. At the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions last week, failure and the resilience required to bounce back from it were discussed as necessary requirements for future entrepreneurs.