Showing posts with label entrepreneurship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entrepreneurship. Show all posts

Friday, 14 October 2011

Why Global Entrepreneurship is a Good Career Move

In many parts of the world, especially in the U.A.E., entrepreneurship is viewed as a good career move that offers high status, which also helps enable favorable media attention.
“Entrepreneurs in the UAE are looking eagerly for [business] opportunities in different sectors. They feel that they can improve their standard of living by owning a business rather than be employed,” al Mutawa told INSEAD Knowledge. “The type of business ranges from the regular to the innovative, and we even have lifestyle entrepreneurs.”
Read the entire article at INSEAD Knowledge here.

Illustration credit:  INSEAD Knowledge: Best of Business Research

Saturday, 7 May 2011

How to Inject Fresh Energy Into the Royal Family: Practice Entrepreneurship

Enlightening commentary by John Berlau for The Wall Street Journal titled, "The Entrepreneurs' Princess."  The reason I find it enlightening is that speaks about how Kate Middleton's family embody a noble tradition of their own:
... a tradition of bettering oneself and one's family while improving the lot of society.
In other words, entrepreneurship.

Learn more about the story of the Middletons rise to wealth and its implications for British culture, public policy and the world at large.  It's a wonderful read.

And while you are at it, visit Carole Middleton's family business:  PartyPieces.co.uk