Enterprising Behaviour - Mindset Barriers & Enablers

Mindsets – enablers or constrainers?

unlocking mindset barriers can support & generate new ideas & changed behaviours to boost enterprising capabilities of people and communities

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enigmatic smile?

Moaning Lisa ?!

….and when cells fire apart the wires depart… Hebbian Learning …when cells fire together they wire together …

‘short circuiting reality’?

genetic inheritance childhood experiences education system peer group & society work birthplace culture time status idea space left

‘Neurological Levels’

? “The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken” -Samuel Johnson

J K Galbraith Economist & Philosopher “faced with the choice of changing ones mind (set?) & proving there is no need to - almost everyone gets busy on the proof !”

“ The land of opportunity is an attitude. It is an openness to new ideas, a willingness to listen, an eagerness to learn, a desire to grow and a flexibility to change ” from ‘A Peacock in the Land of Penguins.’ B J Gallagher et al

'In short, people will need to be creative, rather than passive; capable of self-initiated action rather than dependent; they will need to know how to learn rather than expect to be taught; they will need to be enterprising in their outlook and not think and act like an "employee" or a "client". The organisations in which they work, communities in which they live, and societies in which they belong, will, in turn, also need to possess all these qualities.' Towards an Enterprising Culture, OECD, Paris, Holistic View?

To be enterprising is to demonstrate is a set of qualities and competences that enable individuals, organisations, communities, societies and cultures to be flexible, creative and adaptable in the face of change and challenge. To be Entrepreneurial is when someone successfully takes an idea to implementation to benefit the local economy. This can include taking up self employment for the first time. An entrepreneur looks for opportunities and actually makes it all work for social and/or financial profit.

More opportunities Visualise a new enterprising culture Identify opportunities Deliver new private & social enterprise Confidence increases More inward investment More enterprise generated More confidence More private /social enterprise Ongoing Stimulation of enterprise

Self Fulfilling Failure? Self Fulfilling Success?

The prevailing culture in any community (or part of a community!) or local economy is an aggregate of all the beliefs, assumptions, identities and values held. This can sometimes however act as an ‘immune system’ which rejects different views and neither entertains nor sustains new ideas. It may for example either be a can do culture or a cannot & should not do culture. The culture of any particular group or part of the community will also facilitate individual behaviours and attitudes. When this is a constraining culture allied to personal mindsets of individuals which are also limiting it can and will crush enterprise and enterprising behaviours.

enterprising Holy Triangle of Enterprise individuals organisations communities

Early, confident & passionate Need good signposting and ongoing support Hard to reach and difficult to persuade culture/environment

generic mindsets

community barriers - examples community organisation silos & policy gaps? style & intelligence? change orientation? inappropriate climate & processes? logical & convergent thinking? learning and communications barriers? community no support we can’t… what does it all mean we tried it before belief

personal barriers - examples

Group and Pairs Syndicate Exercise Using mind maps for reference

“Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of Christopher Robin. It is as far as he knows the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there must be another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and start thinking….” AA Milne

Relevance?

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