Entrepreneurial skills in a Christian context

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Entrepreneurial skillsin a Christian context
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• Have you ever started
• something new?
• What was it?
• What was the process?

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Ephesians 4 11-12.
apostles entrepreneur prophet
questioner evangelist communicator pastor
humaniser teacher systematizer
Frost and Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to
come.p175
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Missionary Entrepreneur
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This 10 to 15 of the population should be the
leaven that affects the whole. The leaven is not
able to do its job because our institutions and
bureaucratic systems prevent it. The problem lies
deep. Our education system are all too often
learning regimes rather than talent spotters or
developers. Our institutions stifle
entrepreneurial initiative.
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Releasing the entrepreneurial talent among Gods
people is the greatest task facing the church
today. It is the Entrepreneur Imperative
p4
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• they are people
• habitual
• creative and innovative
• builders
• build something of value
• build using opportunities

A person who habitually creates and innovates to
build something of recognised value around
perceived opportunities. p12
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The Five Habits of Highly Innovative Leaders
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Questioning Observing Networking Experimenting Ass
ociational Thinking
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• confident
• decisive
• energetic
• disrupt status quo
• visionary
• risk taker
• not give up

The essence of entrepreneurial behaviour is
risk taking. p38
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Questions for discussion?

• In what way could you
• describe God as
• an entrepreneur, if
• entrepreneurs create?
• Who are the great entrepreneurs
• of the Bible?

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Two ways of seeing entreprenurship
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Recipe Approach, causal thinking
Jim Collins www.jimcollins.com
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Great to good
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Good to great
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Question for discussion?

• What do you make of this theory
• about entrepreneurship?
• What parts of this might help
• you in your ministry?

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Fridge Approach, effectuation thinking
Saras Sarasvathy http//www.effectuation.org/
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• They really wanted to do this
• They begin by taking a small step
• They stop to see what they have learned.
• They take another step
• Act-learn-build-act.

Entrepreneurs thrive on contingency. The best
ones improvise their way to an outcome that in
retrospect feels ordained.
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Effectuation

• organisational mindset
• objectives, strategic plans, timelines
• love market research
• pioneering mindset
• start with what you have got
• collaborative
• experimental
• objectives arise from experience
• prefer to network than do market research
• both are valid in the right context
• Saras Sarasvathy, Effectuation, 2008

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Question for discussion?

• What do you make of this theory
• about entrepreneurship?
• What parts of this might help
• you in your ministry?
• Are there common threads
• between the two theories.

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A Vision from failure

• The process of trial and
• error is essential
• Try new things
• Make failure survivable
• Know when you have failed

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Pioneering teams
one of the great myths of entrepreneurship has
been the notion if the leader as a lone
hero The reality is that successful
entrepreneurs either built teams about them or
were part of a team throughout. Thomas Cooney,
What is an Entrepreneurial Team
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How do we see the role of the leader ?

• General on a hill
• Make sense of what is happening

Leadership is not in a leader or done by a
leader. Leadership is an emergent event, an
outcome of interactions between individuals.
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Three temptations

1. Focus on goals rather than internal processes
2. Deal with generalities rather than specifics
3. Leader can control their team.

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Three requirements

1. Diversity
2. Responsiveness
3. Associative Capacity.

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Social entrepreneurship
A blending of a business model with
mission. Innovative solutions to social problems
which yield and sustain social benefits
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How we make decisions in a fast changing
environment
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cynefin
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1. Vision is too small
2. Vision is too generic
3. Implementation is too restrictive
4. Methods are too safe.

Seth McBee