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THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE FACE OF UNEMPLOYMENT

An entrepreneur is the person who is able to recognise the bigger picture, find
where there is opportunity to make someone's life be er, design hypothesis
around these opportuni es and con nually test his/her assump ons. It is like
an experiment. Some experiments will work, many others will fail. An
entrepreneur is therefore someone who is able to risk failure at the deepest
personal level, driven by an innate need to create, build and grow, turn
possibility into reality. He is somebody who converts a stumbling block to a
stepping stone.

There are three types of people: (a) Those who make things happen (b) Those
who watch things happen and (c) Those who wonder when things happen.
An entrepreneur is the person that makes things happen. He bears an Stephen EDO
uninsurable risk, he sets a higher target, he is self-confident and builds it, he is HOD Commercial
original and innova ve, result oriented, future oriented and visionary, he has
the ability to influence others to follow him willingly. An entrepreneur iden fies business opportuni es but he
selects the best one. He u lises local raw materials and technology.

AN ENTREPRENEUR'S CREATIVE THINKING: This is rela ng things or idea that were previously unrelated in order to
discover something new or an art of genera ng solu ons to problems by the force of imagina on and reasoning. It is
an ac vity of the mind, seeking to find answers to some of the life's challenging ques ons in a dynamic and changing
world. The challenges of man are not sta c, they take on new forms daily and require a deep analy cal thinking.
From a thinker's perspec ve, every idea is a product of thinking and every product is a man's word of idea both in the
thinker's mind. These are people who see problems as opportuni es to do something new or be er. The product of
thinking is innova on.

He celebrates discovery of man and not accident, the mind of men engaged in crea ve thinking to deliver the visible
product we enjoy today. To make this possible, he has to take certain steps in crea ve thinking such as prepara on,
what effort he is thinking to actualise the dream, allow the problem to remain in your inner conscience that is the
incuba on period, have an insight or flash of illumina on for you to see clearly and finally assess the problem in
accordance with the challenging situa on.

In this regard, everyone should dare to be an entrepreneur in the challenging world of unemployment.

BY-STEPHEN EDO

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