This book describes how one Silicon Valley insider has blazed a path of professional - and personal - success playing the game by his own rules. Silicon Valley is filled with garage-to-riches stories and hot young entrepreneurs with big ideas. Yet even in this place where the exceptional is common, Randy Komisar is a breed apart.
Currently a "Virtual CEO" who provides "leadership on demand" for several renowned companies, Komisar was recently described by the "Washington Post" as a "combined professional mentor, minister without portfolio, in-your-face investor, trouble-shooter and door opener." But even more interesting than what he does is how - and why - he does it. 文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/362.html
Komisar has found a way to turn an ambitious and challenging work life into his life's work."The Monk and the Riddle" is unlike any other business book you've read. Transcending the typical "leadership book" model of lists and frameworks on how to succeed in business, "The Monk and the Riddle" is instead a lively and humorous narrative about the education of a unique Valley insider. It unfolds over the course of an ongoing dialogue between Komisar and would-be entrepreneurs, "Lenny and Allison," and is at once a portal into the inner workings of Silicon Valley - from how startups get launched to how venture capitalists do their deals to how plans get prepared and pitched - and a deeply personal account of how one mover and shaker found fulfillment, not in work's rewards but in work itself.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/362.html
As the narrative follows Komisar through meetings with venture capitalists and eager entrepreneurs, and as his conversations with Lenny evolve toward a resolution, "The Monk and the Riddle" imparts invaluable lessons about the differences between leadership and management and passion and drive, and about the meaning of professional and personal success. "When all is said and done," writes Komisar, "the journey is the reward."文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/362.html
“假设我有一枚蛋，我想让这枚蛋下落三英尺而不摔破。怎样才能做到呢？”硅谷最炙手可热的虚拟首席执行官兰迪·科米萨在缅甸旅行时，一位僧侣给他出了一道这样的谜语。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/362.html
对本书作者兰迪·科米萨来说，这道谜语让他联想到创业者除了赚钱，还有更重要的一点，就是永不磨灭的激情。这位剃着光头、酷爱摩托车的著名硅谷投资家，每个星期都要接到上百件创业企划案，并给予这些创业者指引与建设。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/362.html
作者以幽默的笔法，从一位资深的创业投资者角度，描写他与Funerals.com的创立者之间的互动，让有创业理想的人能够在残酷的竞争中找到支撑自己不畏艰难、勇往直前的动力。了解了兰迪的创业主张后，读者也就能够猜出谜语的答案了。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/362.html
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