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Headbanging 离奇的企业家 World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who ChangedBusiness As We Knew It. By John Byrne. 世界改变者：25位改变传统商业的企业家 作者：约翰拜恩。 Hero-worship is out. Most serious writers aremore interested in forces and factors than inheroes and heroines. And even biographers specialise in exposing feet of clay. Lord Acton sdictum that great men are almost always bad men has become a commonplace. Yet onegroup has escaped from this general cynicism: entrepreneurs. Company executives may beboring Gradgrinds, bankers the spawn of the devil and politicians crooks and liars. But allagree that entrepreneurs are a cut above the rest of mankind. 英雄崇拜的时代已经不再。大多严肃的作家对影响力和影响因素比对英雄本身更加感兴趣。即使是传记作者，也开始专门曝光英雄的缺陷。艾克顿公爵的格言伟人几乎总是坏人已经成为名句。但是有一类人免受这种普遍的怀疑：企业家。企业的高管们也许像令人厌的葛擂梗，是万恶之源的银行家和瞒天过海的政治家。但是所有人都同意企业家要高出其他人一筹。 The obvious reason for this is that entrepreneurs represent the creative side of creativedestruction: it is not hard to see how Richard Branson and Steve Jobs have made the worlda better place, or even Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks. A less obvious reason isthat entrepreneurs appeal to our anti-establishment instincts: some of the very emotionsthat lead us to dislike chief executives and bankers also lead us to admire entrepreneurs.They are impatient with stuffy conventions. They turn the world upside-down. And they getfabulously rewarded for their efforts. | 
