I had a great time at Lee Abbey last week... apart from the incredible location... it was really fantastic to hear from Bill Bolton. Bill is a Business supremo who has done particular work on Entrepreneurial leadership, including setting up a number of 'Centres of Innovation'. He has written several books and has developed a Psychometric type test to establish if you are entrepreneurial by nature or not... out of interest I am apparently... anyway I will probably make a few posts on the subject over the next few days... making connections and reflections etc... but to start with (apart from the one written at Lee Abbey on the 20th) here are one or two quotes on Entrepreneurship and the state of the 'market' used by Bill...
The long-dominant paradigm for why nations succeed internationally is showing signs of strain. Present theories have grown inadequate for the task.
Porter
A new civilisation is emerging in our lives this new civilisation brings new family styles; changed ways of working, loving and living
Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave Suddenly the world is a different place, in today’s environment nothing is constant or predictable
Hammer and Champy- Re-engineering the corporation
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli ‘The brontosaurus moved deeper into the swamps when the mammals took over the forest, but one day it ran out of swamps.’
Business Journalist writing on IBM it is the foremost task and responsibility of our generation to re-imagine our enterprise and institutions, public and private.
Tom Peters - Re-imagine
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