The Age of the Creative Entrepreneur
Melody Cofield
What is needed today more than ever is to create more markets and opportunities to tap the creative capabilities and potential of far greater numbers of people. The question is what are people doing to participate in the need to change? I believe this is the age of the Creative Entrepreneurs. The Chinese term for crisis is "danger-opportunity" Without the danger there cannot arise the opportunity. In this time of "danger-opportunity" there are likely to be opportunities to create new economies. Creativity shapes reality and influences the dream. Our dream produces our inner passion. Most of us supress it for so long, it is almost impossible to be crystal clear about what it is. Put it out on the table, and let's go to work on it. Ultimately we want to transform it into meaningful assets for you and the world.
What is needed today more than ever is to create more markets and opportunities to tap the creative capabilities and potential of far greater numbers of people. The question is what are people doing to participate in the need to change? I believe this is the age of the Creative Entrepreneurs. The Chinese term for crisis is "danger-opportunity" Without the danger there cannot arise the opportunity. In this time of "danger-opportunity" there are likely to be opportunities to create new economies. Creativity shapes reality and influences the dream. Our dream produces our inner passion. Most of us supress it for so long, it is almost impossible to be crystal clear about what it is. Put it out on the table, and let's go to work on it. Ultimately we want to transform it into meaningful assets for you and the world.
I think you are right about we need to find creative ways to tapping into talent. Finding a job is not the only way to make a living. You can create an online business, or provide services that supports businesses. And you can do this doing something that you love.
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Whatever this age is, is isn't the age of the young person who can find a middle-class standard of living in American manufacturing. Good paying factory jobs for high-school educated people are quickly vanishing from our country. Everyone is challenged to draw on their strengths and talents to survive, much less prosper, in the 21st century economy. Opportunities do abound, however, for people who open their hearts and minds. Many people will need help making this transition, though.....the thousands of displaced autoworkers who will never see another job that pays $40/hr for union-protected work. The millions of inner-city youth who have no clue what they're capable of, or how to gain access to skill-enhancing institutions and organizations. A clarion call to those who have - think about how you can give. Relative to most of the world, there is an abundance of wealth and opportunity in this country - the challenge is how to pass along the knowledge to ACCESS these opportunities. A young person who quits school in the 10th grade has a high probability of becoming part of what Cornel West calls the "prison-industrial complex." Without the tools to compete, the intellectual tools to recognize the opportunity-in-your-face, the miserable (but highly lucrative to their corporate owners) prison-industrial complex will be the biggest growth industry in the United States.
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