Should Enterprise Education Be More Than Business Literacy?

I was approached by a young woman in the Holiday Inn in Garforth yesterday.  She tugged gently at my trousers and asked me if I was interested in buying.
She was clutching a beetroot plant in a wonderfully hand painted plant pot, with a colourful and neatly laminated label saying ‘BEETROOT’.  She must have been six [...]

The Information Problem…

Todd Hannula has blogged about the possibility of an open source information platform for social entrepreneurs.  He posits that such a platform might help more social entrepreneurs get the information that they need at the right time.  Sounds like the kind of idea that the public purse might get interested in investing in.
But does it [...]

Why Do I Work In Enterprise?

‘We pass through this world but once.
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life,
Few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive,
Or even to hope,
By a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.’
Stephen Jay Gould
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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 [...]

Enterprise Lessons from Jim Sinegal Costco Founder

Jim Sinegal founded Costco 25 years ago.
This is a great post capturing some of what Jim learned about management, enterprise and entrepreneurship along the way.
Full of wisdom!
Shows that if you set up a small business in the right way – it can become massive.

The Creative Entrepreneur – WOW

Good networking event last night hosted by WYLLN, bmedia and nti.
Explored a couple of questions:

In a fast-moving industry dominated by freelancers and SMEs, what does ‘Leadership & Management’ really mean?
Why is it important?

More prosaically put – why are so many creative/digital businesses poor at establishing basic business processes, managing other creatives and getting paid?
My opinion?
It [...]

Year 10 – Industry Day

My 15 year old daughter brought home a letter yesterday telling me about Industry Day:
In conjunction with our Work Related Learning programme, we have organised Enterprise Days in which all year 10 pupils will participate.
Hidden curriculum lesson 1: Enterprise is not about freedom of expression and choice – it is about complying with the policy [...]

Inspiration and Learning from the Arts

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will [...]

Inspiration from Haneberg and Strickland

Just listening to Lisa Haneberg’s podcast with Bill Strickland.  I can’t get enough of these ideas.  They consider a really powerful question along the lines of:
Will your life be a reflection of your environment or a reflection of your vision of how you want the world to be?
How can we build a relationship with our [...]

Word of Mouth – Marketing that Works

There are at least three major challenges in marketing our enterprise services:

More than 90% of the population does not see what we do as relevant to them – when it comes to enterprise they are pre-contemplators
Getting our messages through – what are our key messages and how to we get them where they can be [...]