Can a Nation Create Entrepreneurs Part 1

CAN A NATION CREATE
ENTREPRENEURS?
- AN ENTREPRENEUR’S JOURNEY

Why do policy-makers talk about
seamless approaches and not more
about sustainable businesses?

What should we really be asking and doing?

Lesley Hetherington
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Scottish Programme for Entrepreneurship


Sustainable enterprise and entrepreneurship
education across Scotland

which means

‘it needs to work for schools, colleges,
universities, teachers, lecturers, pupils and
students!’
University of Aberdeen
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SPE/What-IF conference Sept 2011

SPE @ the University of Aberdeen
• Scottish programme for Entrepreneurship (SPE)
– £1.3 M, 3 years, 3 Universities
• Education -including teacher/lecturer development
– Current and future, across all subjects, all levels

• Sustainable as core
• Aligned with Curriculum for Excellence
– Enterprise – successful learners, confident individuals
– Entrepreneurship- responsible citizens, effective contributors
• Implemented through
– Definitions, models, processes, examples
– Emerging, global perspective Intergenerational Fairness

Scottish programme for Entrepreneurship
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So what?
• Sounds good
• Ticks the boxes
• Workable
– (proven in the real world)

• But
• ..... Who is bothered? Listening?
• .... And why not?
Lesley Hetherington Scottish Programme
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for Entrepreneurship

Why seamless approaches ... rather than sustainable businesses?

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lamppost effect

As a drunk.......

For support, rather than
illumination

Ease of achievement, and
measurement, rather than
effectiveness

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Reality check time..., where are our policy makers?
Worst 2/10 Consciousness Best 10/10
Identity
(who am I?)

values/beliefs

skills/capabilities

behaviour

environment (internal)

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the Pyramid of Change (adapted from Dilts)

Successful entrepreneurs create
YouTube
•business models, which can be
sustained and replicated and easily twitter
understood
facebook
•organisations, which can be sold as
going concerns

•markets, by leveraging social trends
and PEST factors

•industries, by converting new
technologies & slack resources into
new means of production

•Utilising existing know-how and
adapting and customising the same

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hetheringtonlesley@gmail.com
Additional Rants!
l.hetherington@abdn.ac.uk

Society attitude, apathy, official media

The system .. who is educating the
educators and how?

Mindset, experts, political correctness

The importance of self-knowledge and
professional development

Listening, respect and honesty

Heart & head alignment

The value of failure, learning and
crativity

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In the classroom
• A context for
– Dialogue linked to real life and the core subject
– Active and empathic listening skills
– Understanding other perspectives
– Respecting (not necessarily agreeing with) very
different viewpoints .. terrorists or freedom
fighters
– Creativity and critical analysis

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conference Sept 2011

For example ....
• I wish I’d been taught how to respond constructively to bullies and
bullying

• Learn how to grow food and mend stuff

• Learning grammar has been very useful in learning other languages,
I wish I’d heard real people speaking other languages when I was in
primary ... French made no sense to me as an academic subject. My
dad spoke 5 languages fluently .. But it wasn’t passed down

• Right and wrong isn’t that simple beyond primary school arithmetic
.. beyond that it gets more complex .. I wish this was made clearer

• ....... what are your experiences ............................

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SPE/What-IF conference Sept 2011

What is Entrepreneurship?

• Entrepreneurship : ‘Creation of value, through the pursuit of
opportunity, accessing resources beyond those currently
controlled’. (adapted from definition by Howard Stevenson)
• Value creation for others, through alignment of head and heart

• Entrepreneurship creates value from limited resources, often
through tough times. Effective people in roles that fit them, within
high performance teams underpins success.

• A way of thinking, reasoning and acting that is opportunity
obsessed, holistic in approach and leadership balanced.
(Timmons and Spinelli Jr)

• Entrepreneurship is the extreme sport of enterprise

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building competence
Adapted from Kolb’s Learning Cycle

Why Abstract conceptualization

What
What
Reflection if

Concrete experience
How Active experimentation

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Insight into competence Interdependence
(Stephen R Covey Seek first to
‘The 7 habits highly effective people’) Synergize
understand…
then to be 6
understood
PUBLIC
VICTORY
Think 7. Sharpen
Win / Win
the saw
4

Independence

3
Put first
things first
PRIVATE
VICTORY 2
1
Begin with
Be proactive
the end in mind
Scottish Programme for Dependence
Entrepreneurship (SPE) University of 30
Aberdeen

SMART/SMAaRT
(quality check and development model)

Specific • Simple concept
Measurable • Meaningful to you &
other party
(objectively)
Achievable • As if NOW! (live the end picture)
aligned, all areas of life
(others have done it)
Realistic • Responsible for all
(no conflicts, at any level)
(resources are available)
Time or event-scaled • Towards what you want

Finding clarity and synergy
Ryanair or Ryanair for passionate greenies?
8. Key 7. Key 2. Value 4. Customer 1. Customer
Partners Activities Proposition Relationships Segments

(outsourced) Cutting operational ( Why needed and ( nature, loyalty) (under what
costs wanted) conditions)

Hotels Publicity Broke  Cheap Airfares
or
Car hire Flight operation
or
Travel Insurance Adventurous
New adventures students
6. Key 3. Channels
Resources
Quality family Dispersed
Lighter planes time Internet
Email European friends
Website &
special offers and families
communications Deeper
relationships Green travellers
green adventures Green on-line
(less fuel, less shopping
waste)

9. Cost structure 5. Revenue Streams
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Skills Hierarchies
• Decision making • Interdependence
– Timely
– Just in time
– Creative collaboration
• Judgement – Seeking to understand
– Organisational/context sensitivity empathically
– Weighing alternatives – Thinking win/win
– Greatest good, for greatest scope
• Analysis • Independence
– Identify alternatives – Planning and
– Compare and contrast implementation
– Numeric analysis – Objective setting
– Qualitative analysis
• Data gathering – Procactive thinking
– Accurate labelling • Dependence
– Different types of data – Reactive thinking
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Concepts and theories that work
• Values, deeply held desires,
criteria which you hold as right
or important
– Safety, respect, reward,
appreciation
• Usually, decided in the past,
often absorbed rather than a
conscious decision
– parents, teachers, friends,
movies
• Guide current decisions,
actions & behaviour
• Often context dependent
– Home, work, with friends

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Who would you prefer to work with?
(Priorities count, so do drivers)

• Jo • Jude
– Fun – Fun
• 100% towards • 10% towards/90% away
– Adventure – Adventure
• 50% towards/50% away • 100 % towards
– Money – Money
• 100% towards • 50% towards, 50% away
– Safety – Safety
• 10% towards/90% away • 100% towards

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