{"id":176,"date":"2012-07-18T18:58:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.power2improve.com\/c78-english-uk\/c85-blog\/everybod-entrepeneur\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T09:35:25","slug":"everybod-entrepeneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.power2improve.com\/en\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/everybod-entrepeneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody entrepeneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>My executive MBA module now has this entrepeneurship course. We just started and the lecturer and I disagree. He says everybody could be taught to be an entrepeneur&#8230; I say everybody by definition is an entrepeneur.\u00a0That is taking it one step further than Menno Lanting in his book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.managementboek.nl\/boek\/9789047003878\/iedereen-ceo-menno-lanting?affiliate=1635\" target=\"_blank\">Everybody CEO<\/a>&#8220;. But basically his main point is my core argument: you are responsible for your life, you are your CEO.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-margin-top:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Of course that allows you to decide and become an employee. But do realize that being an employee is a choice and not the default. The default is that you are an entrepeneur. One who can sell his\/her knowledge, skill, humor and what more. (BTW: You are actuallying doing that when you choose to become an employee.) You may have forgotten or never realized this, but there is a simple way of (re)finding this simple fact.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you are not. But you could be in the position where this crisis is hitting you on the nose. Budgets are being slashed, possibly some of yours&#8230; maybe even all yours. Jobs are being cut, possibly yours. In any case: set backs, lack of money and crisis in general tend to wake the entrepeneur in you.<\/p>\n<p>Try the following to light the entrepeneural spark in you. Do not use any of your own money this week. Don&#8217;t borrow. Don&#8217;t steal. And oh, yeah, don&#8217;t die. 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