Some Recommendations

“Get Mike involved and he will tirelessly, creatively, and knowledgeably solve the problem, and improve the situation whether in the private or public sector. His ideas on management training are up-to-the-minute and effective. His team’s find him inspirational, and his client’s find him effective because he applies real business acumen in such an original way.”
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My Twitter Friends Mosaic

My twitterverse – small but perfectly formed:

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Find Their Enterprising Soul

Enterprise is not the same as entrepreneurship.
Being enterprising has little to do with starting businesses.
Enterprise is ALL about:

recognising how things are,
recognising how you would prefer them to be
having the self confidence, ideas, plans and taking action that helps to narrow the gap.

If we start from this premise we will find that we can engage far [...]

Community Organising – Obama Style

Community Development Principles and Practical Actions

Julian Dobson usefully reminded me this morning;
Cracking on with ideas is good. Rooting them in community development principles and practical action is even better.
But what are these principles?  A quick bit of web research found this list from CDX in Sheffield:
Values
Community development workers support individuals, groups and organisations in this process on the basis of [...]

Unlocking the Talent

Just re-read the Unlocking the Talent paper from HMG March 2008.
Here are some of the bits that have stuck with me.
This is a government committed to unlocking the talents, not of some of the people, but of all of the people. We want to see every region, city, town and neighbourhood do well, not just [...]

Recognising the Real Problem?

Regeneration aims to bring opportunity to areas that are in decline, and to empower people to take advantage of those opportunities. The decline of an area is often caused in the first instance by structural economic change and a reduction in employment. Parts of the UK have experienced substantial deindustrialisation and loss of jobs since [...]

Wisdom from Thoreau

Is it true that I must limit myself?
Is it true that I have a definite “ceiling of potential”?
Are some people’s ceilings built higher than others’?
There are indeed, mental ceilings built above people, limiting them; limiting their potential, limiting their resources, and eventually generating their finalities.
These structures are not physical formations. It would take [...]

Chris Grayling ‘Army of Entrepreneurs’ Proposal

Every business start-up has a cost, and if you’re on the dole you can’t easily afford to buy basic equipment. At the moment the only start-up cash available from the “new deal” for unemployed people trying to start a business is £400. We don’t think that’s nearly enough, so we’ll give the [...]

Dragons’ Den is a Bare Faced Lie About How Business is Done

You can usually trust a good comedian to get down the truth of the matter, and David Mitchell has done just this with the Dragons’ Den format.
“Dragons’ Den is a bare-faced lie about how business is done,” he say. “The people who do that jobs are not rude because there’s no percentage for [...]