Recently a number of things have reminded me that we spend a disproportionate mount of time on qualifications and not enough on skills. I was reading an article in which employees were saying how people coming out of university were lacking in the skills they required of new applicants. This is despite 95% of students...
Tag: motivation
What is wrong with entrepreneurship?
Recently I was preparing a report and I put in it that the local university had 12,000 potential entrepreneurs. When the document was reviewed I was told that it was an arrogant and slightly over the top statement. Quite frankly, given that the report was supposedly on an entrepreneurship project, I was astounded at the...
Disabled or Differently Abled?
This week is United Nations International Day for Disabled Persons and I was busy getting ready to speak at an event on the day. The first thing that struck me was that we still refer to people as disabled because there is something different about them to the accepted norm of a human being. My...