Post Covid crisis - opportunities for entrepreneurship in the second half of life

"Working smart and working hard to provide sustainable solutions has been the business of most people in most societies since the dawn of time.

Despite the trappings, now is no different - except that we have better and cheaper tools than have ever been available in human history.  High tech headlines tantalize would-be entrepreneurs, but I think they also deter most of us.  That's unfortunate. The simple human skills of basic, sustainable entrepreneurship get thrown out for the false realities of spreadsheets and get-rich seminars.

If ever there was a time to reclaim and celebrate small-scale, sustainable entrepreneurship and all the common sense that entails, now is that time."

From the closing chapter of the book, chapter 8.  Leading Your Legacy.









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