Thursday 23 June 2011

Learnings - 23rd - Raise Kids To Be Entrepreneurs


Key points for:

1.      Schools raise kids for professional life - "A traditional education, honesty and hard work are simply not enough any more – yet school curriculums are still geared towards producing good employees." http://raisingentrepreneurs.org/

2.      Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand  - This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor, and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story. http://books.google.com/books/about/Atlas_shrugged.html?id=0gLzGn-LYAQC


3.      Attention Deficit Disorder and Bipolar disorder (CEO disease) - Ted Turner, all 3 founders of Netscape , Steve Jobs. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3726/is_199802/ai_n8798710/

4.      Not to do: No allowance - regular check giving conditions them for a job and harms their ability to earn and make money.

5.      Skills: 
  • Negotiation, 
  • Logical thinking
  • Customer handling
  • How to save money
  • Problem solving
  • Leading others
  • Want to make money
  • Public Speaking
  • To ask questions
  • Learn from mistakes
  • How to sell
  • Never to give up
  • To be creative
  • To ask for help
  • To see solutions
6.      Traits:  
  • Networking
  • Attainment
  • Leadership
  • Tenacity
  • Sales
  • Introspection
  • Handling failure
  • Boot strapping 
  • Customer Services
  • Labeling

Further reading:
http://getfree.tv/workablefuture/?p=207

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