After listening to the audio recording of my brief talk about “the emergence of CEOs“, a #TMP Reader asked:
“So, are you saying one has to be an employer of labour before you can be considered to be an entrepreneur?”
Not really.
There are different models of Entrepreneurship, so many different approaches to the game. But the one approach to the game that I think can secure our future is the one that involves actually creating a cutting edge company that can hold its own anywhere in the world and create job openings.
If whatever it is you do is worth doing, it is very likely that you would need more hands to assist you in getting it done as you try to take on more and more customers. The real challenge here is that we have been mentally conditioned to only think about financial independence and security for ourselves only, and as such we only look at creating companies that are big enough to feed “me and my family” only. A lot of Nigerian Entrepreneurs are just one-man shows, they have no employees and I really think they should be re-classified as what they really are: freelancers or the more ego soothing Contract-preneur.
However, if we take a look at the bigger picture, we realise that :
- Everybody cannot be an Entrepreneur, there will be far too many shitty companies out there.
- One of the greatest way to leave a stamp on the face of the earth is by building a company that truly pioneers a great idea (innovation or invention or both).
(Let’s keep the comments coming in, and if you are yet to listen to the audio recording, you can grab it here: “the emergence of CEOs” its free.)
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Watching The World
- I was hoping it is a joke, but apparently.. It is real. CBN wants to regulate BitCoin in Nigeria. (I am already ROTFL, wanna join me?)
- Chams Mobile partners Skye bank to debut Nigeria’s first virtual VISA Card
