Hi.
It’s Wednesday, and it’s already been a loooong week for a lot of us.
On top of **gestures wildly at the universe** I’ve spent the first couple of days this week finishing some reports that should have gotten done in December, fighting a stupid sinus infection and listening to my husband vomit every hour last night. And now I am on a plane, taking a trip with my friend to see my favorite band in a city that is very close to my heart, to celebrate turning 56 (!!) tomorrow.
So, my Future Here Now production plan for the week is a miniature train wreck, and unlikely to get better before Sunday. Given that, here’s a few programming updates:
I will share some Selections from previous books and other publications today, tomorrow and Friday. Thankfully, I’ve been doing this forever, so I’ve got a pretty deep vault to pull out of.
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I will hold and post a Future Live on Thursday, but it will not be live, unfortunately. Because I did the time change wrong. Instead of live streaming at noon, I will record my interview with Christina and Rachel tomorrow early evening, and post it here and on LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.
3. We will resume talking about building a Future Ready Mind next week, same time, same place.
In the meantime, here's one of my favorite pieces from The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived: What’s Changed and How You Can Help. Available where you get your books.
Thanks. See you next week.
Entrepreneurial Mindset is the unmet need. For everyone. 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 what evidence there is indicates a multi-decade decline in entrepreneurial mindset in the United States. That’s not surprising, given that the Industrial Era didn’t want the millions of people who were working on their lines to upset their carefully-crafted systems. But the Fusion Era isn’t accepting that.
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.
But most people have had few chances to experience,or exercise, an entrepreneurial mindset, because the Industrial Era didn’t want it.
If our work is about people, and if we are so dependent on our Talent, then it falls out that an entrepreneurial mindset is arguably 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 highly educated. Entrepreneurial work is everyone’s work, if for no other reason than 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.
Love the focus on entrepreneurialism as a way of thinking. When we start drilling down further, I think this mindset switch actually helps to solve (or at least chip away at) a lot of problems that may seem structural but really aren't. At the very least, it can help us find creative ways of getting around barriers that make other avenues for change less realistic. I think it starts with dismantling the notion that being 'entrepreneurial' means you automatically have an ambition to build a billion dollar business (or any business). I love how you point out that it's actually more about a general mindset of how to look at problems and find solutions. That cuts into so many more interconnected aspects of life, and also offers more potential.