Entrepreneurship in need of a new guide book
The development of Entrepreneurs requires leaders with qualities unseen or not considered as important in the past.
The world cries out for a new type of leadership, not just as we face global concerns and unresolved geopolitical matters, but in a leadership that capture different abilities and values that will be required to open new perspectives.
In a recent article published by about Cyprus entrepreneurship and the challenge for current establishment, it is made evident that if entreprises, administrations, associations and civil society are to guide upcoming generations, current skill sets will need to reinforce new habits and new ways of connecting with success.
What would these abilities look like? To much surprise, these may be age old capabilities but have been until now limited to the sphere of the Arts and Culture - Creativity embodies these and more items
- True Openess
- Ability to question and ask questions
- Making new connections, new combinations and relationships
- Ability to risk and experiment
- Tolerance to ambiguity and diversity
- Working outside the comfort zone
Centered as capabilities that may actually 'rock your traditional boat', these are not only requisites for personal development, but are factors that should help with rethinking of our own cultural and societal biases. The how and the who behind the role in development of these skills, start with from early to higher education and in the workplace, wherever that may be.
This is a challenge bigger than anyone can think. It means moving away from the comfort of predictability, embracing variation, and building capacity to function well outside one's comfort zone to generate new ideas, solutions to the challenges that will flourish as a result of the post-crisis.
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Dr. Ali Dastmalchian is dean of the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria.
The Victoria Times Colonist
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