Environment and Entrepreneurship
While any entrepreneur wishes to make their environment the product of them rather then be what the environment produces, this is a macro versus micro conundrum.
Entrepreneurship is a creative endeavor. Keeping your eyes open for opportunity, where you can spot a need and enact to fill that need, takes creative power. This is about creating an enabling environment. This is micro.
To spot that opportunity it takes muses, other people. People to bounce ideas off of, executors who can enact the plan, and finally a market that will react. To impact on the macro scale, you need to create the proper micro environment.
Its balance, but with out courting the right environment to live in, you will inhibit your ability to explore opportunity to make something big. The real secret to the creation and realization process is the environment you are an actor in.
November 4th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I have only started thinking creatively about concrete innovations for schools after working in one. I’m surprised at the number of entrepreneurial ideas that roll through my mind about my classroom/ my school/ structuring a school these days. But you’re right, you have to be in touch with the needs of the environment in order to think creatively about how to address those needs.