As we move into tighter, more competitive global markets, the one area we appear to be lagging behind in North America (my UK and European friends can comment and add), is in training our youth in entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship teaches youth critical thinking, creativity, leadership, management of people and operations and an understanding of employee relations. Consumer behaviours and buying habits, in relation to product or service offerings, market size, pricing, all factor into the training process. This may seem all too obvious yet when compared to European and UK programs, the North American market lags far behind.
North America, namely the US, has always believed they were the de facto capitalists. Perhaps so..at one time. Not any more. North America appears to now lack the creative drive, risk taking, innovative mindset that the rest of the free democratic world has captured during the last few decades. Mostly out of necessity, surely out of training in entrepreneurship as career options, other countries have amassed a strong stable of entrepreneurial leaders.
Milearn is working, on bringing entrepreneurship training through its web site resources, and working with youth sites such as ottawayouth.ca, to the next generation of business leaders, and drivers. We are amazed that most school systems have yet to embrace, or understand the necessity of offering such topics and training in their schools. As we emerge from this recession in 2010, we can only hope in North America, that the creative juices which brought us into the 20th century will thrive in a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Teachers must think and act differently. It is a shame if we do not look at entrepreneurship as a viable career, while having it taught by some entrepreneurial teachers.
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