Posts tagged entrepreneurship
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A 9-year-old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life.
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This is fantastic. My faith in humanity is restored. — Tanya
Bruce Nussbaum: Designers Are The New Drivers Of American Entrepreneurialism | Co. Design
In addition to conceptual thinking:
Another critical concept is framing. One key to entrepreneurs’ success is that they frame things differently, they connect existing dots in unique ways. The two guys who started Method, for example, frame-changed the market for sustainable cleaning products from a “suffering-is-good-for-you” space to a “cool-design-that’s-good-for-the-planet” space.
We also need to know a lot more about “meaning,” not just the data gathered by ethnography but knowledge that takes us much deeper into understanding culture. We need to know more about shared spectacle and why we crave it, and how honing craft and skill to near perfection can enable you to make and do the unique—which is what entrepreneurs do.
A good list to scroll through if you’d like to refresh the offerings of your own RSS reader with a few new subscriptions.
Seth gives us an entrepreneurial illustration of this: Kukupa‘u: Be Enthusiastic!
A corollary to that old question, “Are you one who believes leaders are born or made?” (and here is how I feel about that one: A Truth-Fed Philosophy of Leadership in the MWAC archives)
Also makes me think about Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers again too. Here is a snippet from the book review Tim Milburn did for us in ALAWB09 on Joyful Jubilant Learning:
“It is not the brightest who succeed,” Gladwell writes. “Nor is success
simply the sum of the decisions and efforts we make on our own behalf. It is, rather, a gift. Outliers are those who have been given
opportunities — and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”
