Growing Entrepreneurs

Curriculum Committee tonight at Calder High where I sit as a governor.
You wouldn’t think that this would have anything to do with the Regeneration project but I was surprised to find the conversation veering towards enterprise and how to grow and train future business leaders. I have to admit to being a bit surprised as the children we were discussing were the 11-14 age group.
Where do entrepreneurs come from? We need to look at this a bit more if we are going to open an enterprise centre. Is it something to do with being a little bit fearless, is it something to do with being a bit creative, is it is something to do with being a bit lucky?
Is taught, caught, bought or brought?
A harder meeting this afternoon preceded this which is planning for the moment when our funders say yes and we able to start phases 2-8 of our hall and village regeneration project. It's hard for us to be waiting on a bunch of strangers to change our life and the lives of our village.
Tonight I got home to phone call from my son Ben who has just got back from his seleciton conference for being a vicar in the Church of England. He too is waiting now to hear if he will start training in September. It's hard waiting for a bunch of strangers...