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unlocking mindset barriers
can support & generate
new ideas & changed behaviours
to boost
enterprising capabilities of people and communities
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers of a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig or waht?
Redniag Tset
….and when cells fire apart the wires depart…
Hebbian Learning
…when cells fire together they wire together…
genetic inheritance
childhood experiences
education system
peer group & society
work
birthplace culture time status
idea space left
?
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken” -Samuel Johnson
J K GalbraithEconomist & Philosopher
“faced with the choice of changing ones mind (set?) & proving there is no need to - almost everyone gets busy on the proof !”
“ The land of opportunity is an attitude. It is an openness to new ideas, a willingness to listen, an eagerness to learn, a desire to grow and a flexibility to change ” from ‘A Peacock in the Land of Penguins.’ B J Gallagher et al
'In short, people will need to be creative, rather than passive; capable of self-initiated action rather than dependent; they will need to know how to learn rather than expect to be taught; they will need to be enterprising in their outlook and not think and act like an "employee" or a "client". The organisations in which they work, communities in which they live, and societies in which they belong, will, in turn, also need to possess all these qualities.'
Towards an Enterprising Culture, OECD, Paris, 1988.
Holistic View?
To be enterprising is to demonstrate is a set of qualities and competences that enable individuals,
organisations, communities, societies and cultures to be flexible, creative and adaptable in the face of change
and challenge.
To be Entrepreneurial is when someone successfully takes an idea to implementation to benefit the local
economy. This can include taking up self employment for the first time. An entrepreneur looks for opportunities and actually makes it all work for social and/or financial
profit.
More opportunities
Visualise a new enterprising culture
Identify opportunities
Deliver new private & social enterprise
Confidence increases
More inward investment
More enterprise generated
More confidence
More private /social enterprise
Ongoing Stimulation of enterprise
The prevailing culture in any community (or part of a community!) or local economy is an aggregate of all the beliefs, assumptions, identities and values held. This can sometimes however act as an ‘immune system’ which rejects different views and neither entertains nor sustains new ideas. It may for example either be a can do culture or a cannot & should not do culture. The culture of any particular group or part of the community will also facilitate individual behaviours and attitudes. When this is a constraining culture allied to personal mindsets of individuals which are also limiting it can and will crush enterprise and enterprising behaviours.
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Holy Triangle of Enterprise
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organisations
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Early, confident & passionate
Need good signposting and ongoing support
Hard to reach and difficult to persuade
culture/environment
community barriers - examples
communityorganisation
silos & policy gaps?
style &
intelligence?change
orientation?
inappropriate climate &
processes?logical &
convergent thinking?
learning and communications
barriers?
community
no support
we can’t…
what does it all mean
we tried it before
belief
personal barriers - examples
Personalstereotyping/
labelling?
fear of making a mistake?
habits and traditions?
lack of support
for ideas?
use of the wrong
language?
non computer literate?
“Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of Christopher Robin. It is as far as he knows the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there must be another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and start thinking….”
AA Milne
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