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 [...]

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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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 [...]

Build It – And They Won’t Come!

Why are so many ‘entrepreneurial’ workspaces so empty?
I have visited many recently. Those that pursue sustainability through membership fees and rentals are often the emptiest. Or full of people from out of town who can recognise a bargain when/if they see one. Those that recognise that local people often cannot afford to pay and [...]

Enterprise Lessons from Frazer Irving

Had the privilege of attending my first Creative Networks event at Leeds College of Art.  Frazer Irving – a wonderful illustrator talked about his career – from which I took the following:

the seeds of your (your clients) future are often sown early – go back to the early years to see if the basis for [...]

The Recipe for Entrepreneurial Success

Most enterprise support services are designed around the assumption that if the entrepreneur has the right business idea (one that is ‘viable’) then they can be helped to make a successful business from it. It is the quality of the idea that is central and we develop the entrepreneur around it.
This is putting the [...]