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How has hurt our entrepreneurial spirit

The message is as appealing to the public, because it is the ardent desire of every human being to his own life. We want to be extraordinary in an ordinary world.
However, few succeed. Why?

The appeasement of our entrepreneurial spirit is one of the main causes.

Human beings are by nature entrepreneurial. Just look around us to see how man has changed the face of the earth. All thanks to the restless curiosity that is characteristic of human beings.

Some call it creativity, others prefer the term “browser” or “innovative.” Whatever name you want to, is the most amazing inner strength that human beings possess.

Entrepreneurship is intrinsic to the Human Being

The entrepreneurial spirit is so innate in the human being should be chained together to curb it.

It is something to observe the behavior of a baby. As has the power to move independently, either crawling or walking, begins an important mission to explore their surroundings.

Then comes the tiresome “age of why”, which want to know everything. Throughout his childhood, children show a remarkable inquisitive nature that should never lose.

However, many of them do not develop their full potential. As they proceed on their way through traditional education, entrepreneurial spirit to even off subsides during adolescence, a stage which every girl should be brimming with ideas and plans for their future.

After years of encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit in our children and see this phenomenon limiting parallel in many young people, I can not think of a bonsai.

According to Wikipedia, Bonsai is the art of growing trees and plants, reducing its size by techniques such as pruning, wiring, pinching, etc.., And modeling the way to create a style that reminds us of a nature scene .

It basically consists of complicated techniques of mutilation of both roots and the rest of a tree again with the aim of producing a beautiful miniature tree for decoration.

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2 of 10 good business methods

2 of 10 good business methodsDo you have a small business and operas every day, without planning beyond your everyday cash flow? Do you know how far you want or you can reach your business? Do you have basic knowledge of management or drive your business so intuitive?

If your answer is yes, perhaps you should begin to devise a business plan. In Mexico, over 60% of new businesses fail before their two years of operation, according to figures from the SME Centre of the Secretariat of Economy.

This is largely because many entrepreneurs embark on the venture without having previously established a business plan is the equivalent of a captain who embarks on a journey without having to hand a map and navigational instruments.

“Many people first rent the space in which to install and then worry about the business plan,” said Jorge Enrique Flared, director of the Center for Business Innovation for Corporate Services, the Technologic de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe “Without mission and vision, not go anywhere, “says academic.
Businesses located in function of the distance from home owner, small businesses run by many ‘chiefs’, lack of competition and financial calculations “a rule of thumb” are part of the common mistakes of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Mexico.

These and many other errors can be avoided if the entrepreneur uses a consultancy to design a business plan. With the support of Jorge Enrique Flared, professor and consultant to the Technologic de Monterrey, here are five useful steps to outline your business plan:

1. Define and justify the business well. The first step is to define the mission, vision and objectives of your business. The mission establishes the central purpose and rationale of a business: what business you want to do and why? What accomplishments you intend to accomplish in your environment and what benefits you will provide and obtain. The vision defines the goal or the path which runs a business in the long term. It also serves to set the course and as an incentive to guide strategic decisions: Will you be the leader in your segment or sector? Want to be the most innovative? The objectives are defined in terms of mission and vision: where you get settled in five years? What level of sales wants to be?
2. Define the marketing and image. The entrepreneur must rely on a smart market research, where data serve to make clear decisions about the business, such as defining how many products you should manufacture or sell a new company. The market allows for an analysis of your business, hence leave the rest of the elements of marketing, advertising, promotion, image management and launch. It is also necessary to analyze the macro and micro sector. “If you want to sell your product in Mexico City, say, Santa Fe, you have to do a macroeconomic analysis of how is the area and then a specific analysis of the turn that will take the business: there are many companies and suppliers around who could be your customers, etcetera.”Says Technology consultant.