No room to teach entrepreneurship

A recent Facebook post by myself,

“In Organizational Leadership class right now…I asked the question, ‘Why isn’t entrepreneurship taught to children in America?’ —– What do you think?”

What I got for answers amounted to a great discussion between a few different friends of mine.

The answer that I agreed with was,

“The system is designed to keep folks with a worker mentality to maintain a stabilized workforce for the wealthy. This creates the class system as we know it, only few can break through with knowledge taught outside of the normal education arena. It’s like an unwritten rule, it will never be taught in the public sector. What will make a difference is sharing the knowledge.”

For the most part, Americans are taught to get a good education, so they can get a good job with good benefits, and a good retirement plan. There is no encouragement to venture into entrepreneurship. We are taught to “play it safe.” For those of you who have read Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” you’ll know exactly what I am speaking of.

My final comment on the subject read as follows,

“If entrepreneurship was encouraged at an earlier age, I bet America would have many more millionaires, less unemployment, and more exports vs. imports (less trade deficit).”

Think about it…more people starting small businesses would be able to hire more people. Sure, not every business will succeed, but it’s in the numbers; out of X many businesses started, Y amount will succeed.

Typically, people pursue a business in the area that they are familiar with. A plumber will start a plumbing business, an accountant will start an accounting service, an IT person may start a computer business…so on and so forth. On the flip side, other people get into businesses that have proven to provide significant profit yields, i.e. franchises – you don’t have to be hands on to learn and operate a franchise.

So again, why isn’t entrepreneurship encouraged or taught in schools?

There may not be a definite answer, but it makes for good discussion.

What do you think?

 

The Tale of Two Parties – Part II

The Right.

GOP, Right-wingers, Conservatives, and now introducing Tea Partiers.

Where in the world do I start?

First of all, Republicans have to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. He has already commented that he goes for the ratings to rake in the advertising dollars.  Next, stop listening to Sarah Palin; as far as politics go, Palin seems to be a little out of touch.

Speaking of Palin, I don’t know what was going through the heads of the Tea Party admin when they chose her to be the keynote speaker. I was diggin’ the Tea Party message until they pulled a stunt like that. With a reputation of being an “angry mob” of “right-wing extremists,” why in the world would you choose the same lady who corralled in votes from racist monkey-wielding conservatives? Of course that is a rhetorical question…VOTES! Just like the Dem’s ACORN baby, you have your dirty niche votes too. Don’t deny it.

Great way to promote your cause.

Moving right along, a wonderful new bill from John McCain is set to remove many of the vitamins and dietary supplements that millions of people use, from store shelves. C’mon, why take away the vitamins that many people depend upon to accompany the vitamin deficient fruits and vegetables found at our local grocery stores? Why is time being spent on such an unnecessary legislation?

The biggest move the GOP can make to foster any increased support is to release their proposals for the public to review. Stop the bitching and moaning about what Obama isn’t doing, and offer your solutions up to public scrutiny…the best solutions should be taken into consideration by the Congress and Senate.

Finally, open your ears to what Ron Paul is saying. Do you think it’s an accident that he lead in the recent CPAC poll? Absolutely not. He is the most logical Republican in Washington. Seriously, stop going with the media’s opinion swaying smear campaign and really process his proposals; you’ll see that they make a little sense.

There are more issues to put on “front street” but I don’t feel like it right now. There’s plenty to process from what is written above. More to come soon.

 

The Tale of Two Parties – Part I

MESSAGE TO READERS: Don’t fret…I am just as scathing against the Right-wing, you’ll see.

The Left

Liberal, Democrat, Left-Winger.

Money is tightening it’s grip, and the blue side of the aisle is money’s agent right now.

Obama has taken on a lot of rage from the Right-wing since the campaign trail. One main accusation was that Obama is a socialist. Is he? Maybe, maybe not. He is definitely a liberal though, right?

“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” – Norman Thomas, (1884-1968) six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

 

Love and Hate: Affirmative Action – a dialogue

I got the idea to write the following dialogue after a discussion on diversity and affirmative action in a recent class. During the discussion, I expressed the opinion of my own “love and hate” relationship with the idea of affirmative action. While affirmative action actually benefits any minority (white women, non-white ethnicities, etc.), it is largely associated as another “step up” for the Black individual.

Jamal Henderson – 26 years of age. Graduate of a prestigious business school. BS Major in Marketing. MBA with a focus on international marketing.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Jamal:[after job interview]  Damn, I hope I get this job…the savings are dwindling to crumbs.

2 days later

Bob, HR Mgr – phone call to Jamal: Hello, Mr. Jackson?

Jamal: Speaking

Bob: I just wanted to thank you for making time to interview with Planters and Associates…

Jamal: [thinking] Aww shit…

Bob: Annddd…

 

A great way for the college student to save money

I figured I would take time out from the normal posts and give a “shameless plug.” So if you know a college student who may benefit from saving some money on those pesky expensive and necessary college books, then have them check out this blog post. They will appreciate you greatly.

The Facts

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