Professional Development in Support of Local Enterprise Growth

What professional development and training experiences would help you to become more effective in your role in delivering local enterprise growth?
Whether you are:

a service provider – working face to face with clients, or

a service manager – working with service providers and reporting to a contract manager as part of a delivery ‘partnership’, or

managing a LEGI [...]

Right to Read

Right to Read is an excellent campaign being run by the RNIB.  Up to three million children and adults are being denied the right to read because they have a sight problem, dyslexia or another reading disability.  The RNIB are campaigning to put this right.
This sort of campaign can have a damaging effect on many [...]

Enterprise Options

This week-end I got to spend a few hours with a group of people who are being helped to plan and a start their own businesses through a funded programme to support enterprise and entrepreneurship.
It is clear that every member of the group has the passion and skills required to do something special. What [...]

Myths of Entrepreneurship

Great post here on Guy Kawasaki’s blog by Scott Shane.  Does anyone know how these myths stack up on this side of the pond?

Entrepreneurship Illusions

Scott Shane from Case Western has just published (in the US) The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By.
“People start businesses based on the myths we tell ourselves about entrepreneurship and then are hurt when confronted by reality. Investors believe these myths and invest money and they’re [...]

Blame is a primitive response – Entrepreneurship is a much better one

“If journalists spent as much time studying the lives of the poor as they do gazing at the rich, it would help us all keep our heads on straight.
We [...]