ELI’s Founder and CEO, Gary Schoeniger joined International Strategic Management’s (ISM Inc) Faris Alami for a discussion around life lessons from unlikely entrepreneurs, and how these lessons apply to our uncertain times. Enjoy!
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Carol Dweck – The Power of Believing You Can Improve
Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain’s capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not smart enough to solve it …
Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t – Malcom Gladwell *Video*
Outliers is a book about success. It starts with a very simple question: what is the difference between those who do something special with their lives and everyone else? In Outliers we’re going to visit a genius who lives on a horse farm in Northern Missouri. We’re going to examine
How you can apply a Growth Mindset at home, at school and in your career – Dr. Carol S. Dweck *Video*
“You’re so talented!”, “You are gifted – a natural!”, “You’re doing so well in school, you must be really smart!” – children receive these messages (or their negative counterparts), along with many other messages on a daily basis from their peers, parents and teachers. Are these just words or do
COVID-19, Small Business Owners, and Racial Inequality by Robert Fairlie
The widespread closing of businesses in the United States and around the world due to the coronavirus has been unprecedented. Stores, factories, and many other businesses have closed as a result of policy mandates, downward demand shifts, health concerns, or other factors. Although many have reopened since social distancing restrictions
Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs: Unlocking Entrepreneurial Capabilities to Meet the Global Challenges of the 21st Century (World Economic Forum PDF)
The World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative (GEI) report, Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs provides specific recommendations for the academic, public, private and non-profit sectors to collaborate in supporting the development of entrepreneurship ecosystems, in which education is a key driver. The report highlights the importance of entrepreneurship education
State of Housing in Black America – SHIBA Report
THE SHIBA REPORT The Term SHIBA, is the acronym used to represent our focus on the State of Housing in Black America (SHIBA) The SHIBA Report is very comprehensive. It provides a detail view into the real numbers and facts that impact and impede Black families from realizing the dream
The fundamental aspects of an entrepreneurial mindset for workforce.
A mindset, can be simply described as the inclination one has and their attitudes towards their interpretation of situations and circumstances according to their beliefs and thoughts. An entrepreneurial mindset, is a specific set of beliefs and thoughts, mainly inclined towards how an entrepreneur would interpret situations and events around
Economic Impact of Entrepreneurial Thinking in the Workplace.
Entrepreneurial thinking affects a number of aspects in the workplace. First, it promotes innovation that increases the growth of the economy. Entrepreneurs, often come up with new ideas and innovations to penetrate the market. In doing so, they bring about new innovations and technologies that promote the growth of the
How Entrepreneurship Has Been a Pathway Out of Poverty With the Current Economic Changes Now is the Best Time to Prepare For This New Economy.
In the United States, the economy has seen its fair share of growth and stagnation over the years. This is common for any growing economy. For low-income workers, this has meant instability in their finances, pushing them to venture into new ways of making money, one of them entrepreneurship. Low-income
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