THE FUTURE BELONG TO ENTREPRENEURS A REBIRTH OF ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET Entrepreneurship is a subject that should be taught from junior secondary schools or even earlier to the highest level of education . There is no point preparing young people for a world that no longer exists. Employees are becoming endangered species. The future belongs to entrepreneurs. We are now in the information age. Many historians regard 1989 as the year the industrial age came to an end. This is the year the Berlin Wall came crumbling down and the World Wide Web went up. Information is now open source and companies or employees that do not adapt to the new economy may become part of the debris left behind by change. The company no longer takes care of you for life. Your career, your finances, your health, your well being, you name it, is now your responsibility. We are now self-employed. If your skill becomes obsolete, you are fired. Before the industrial age, our forefathers were all entrepreneurs. Everyone cultivated his farm and the labor force came primarily from the immediate family. With the industrial age, most people migrated to the cities to get a job. Schools sprang up to produce employees for the factories and soldiers for the armed forces. To succeed in a job, you needed to go to a school, get good grades and get a good job. Today, a good degree does not guarantee a job. School drop outs dominate the marketplace while those with good degrees work for them. There is an entrepreneur in everyone. While everyone may not have what it takes to run a successful business, we can all innovate either from the inside as intraprenuers or on our own as entrepreneurs. In the new economy, employers are looking for intraprenuers – employees with an entrepreneurial spirit, employees who don’t simply settle with doing what they are told or stick with their job description but also innovate. Employees who bring new ideas to the table and can run with it when given the opportunity, employees who can run a business profitably. Such employees are hardly let go no matter the strength of the economic headwinds. Rather they become more valuable and grow to become partners or key shareholder. The era downsizing, outsourcing, asset optimization, mergers and acquisitions, growing unemployment, the future belongs to those who discover who they are, what they have to give, where they want to go and get on with it. The future belongs to those who are ready to take the bull by the horns and take their destiny in their hands rather than wait for circumstances to change. The future belongs to entrepreneurs. THINK BIG YOU ARE THE NEXT ENTREPRENEUR #BITCAMPUSENTREPRENEURSHIPTOUR
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:22:13 +0000
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