This week’s Future Here now is focusing on the need for entrepreneurial mindsets in the Fusion Era - and how that runs counter to much of what we have learned.
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The Big Idea
When we ask people to self-manage multiple career changes, play an active role in improving their communities, do the hard work of continuous education, advocate for their children in school, we are basically asking them to live entrepreneurially. And evidence indicates a multi-decade decline in entrepreneurial mindset in the United States.
In a situation where the old systems no longer work, to not be entrepreneurial is to be helpless - whether you are starting a business or not. You have to be able to see and capitalize on new opportunities. That goes for everyone, no matter your education level or profession or position or wealth.
If our work is about people, and if we are so dependent on our Talent, then it falls out that an entrepreneurial mindset is our biggest asset, our human ecosystem’s new superpower. If we have lots of people who can think and act entrepreneurially, then we will have lots of good problem-solving and creation.
But to have that, we can’t treat entrepreneurialism as this special playground for the wealthy or educated. Entrepreneurial work is everyone’s work, because non-entrepreneurialness is a recipe for deterioration. And that means that our budgets, our programs, our systems have to increase entrepreneurialism, especially for those who have been cut out of the game in the past.