By George ILIEV
Corporate careers are static: they resemble the nouns in language.
Entrepreneurial careers are dynamic: they resemble the verbs.
Yet, there are no limits to who can be an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is like the English and the Chinese language: most nouns can also be verbs, with no changes required: to turn, to spin, to fly; a turn, a spin, a fly.
And even in languages where the verbs and the nouns differ in form (e.g. German, Russian, Spanish), the root of the word is what the two have in common. So almost any root can be shaped into either a corporate noun, or an entrepreneurial verb.
In five words: Entrepreneurship is an open door.
CorporateNature Metaphor Series, No 115
Entrepreneurial careers are dynamic: they resemble the verbs.
Yet, there are no limits to who can be an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is like the English and the Chinese language: most nouns can also be verbs, with no changes required: to turn, to spin, to fly; a turn, a spin, a fly.
And even in languages where the verbs and the nouns differ in form (e.g. German, Russian, Spanish), the root of the word is what the two have in common. So almost any root can be shaped into either a corporate noun, or an entrepreneurial verb.
In five words: Entrepreneurship is an open door.
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| Open doorway (Source: Wikipedia) |
The five words in "Entrepreneurship is an open door" come in a ratio of 2 nouns to 1 verb. This is probably the right ratio of corporate employment to entrepreneurial endeavour across the world (if we count every smallholder farmer or craftsman as an entrepreneur).
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny that WFH (work from home) is the same as both a verb and a noun.
ReplyDeleteWhile LFH (live at home) changes its vowel when it becomes a noun (life at home)