Taking a closer look into an enterprising career
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Staying in a comfort zone just does not make them tick. Being enterprising also requires one to spend more time in activities that mainly involve selling and promoting products and services, than analysing data. Enterprising also requires one to rely on their verbal skills to persuade others to buy their products and services. Enterprising people also tend to have their value system hinged on power, money and influence. Below is a classic job description as derived from (George & Chatterjee, 2014), of somebody working in an enterprising organisation:
Mogwebi* is a 28 year old captain (also referred to as Chef de Rang by some) in an established eatery in an upmarket place. His job requires him to oversee a section of four to eight tables called a station, along with a team of busboys and waiters. He makes sure that indeed busboys take bar orders, bring in dishes from the kitchen to the table as well as bills efficiently and that waiters do take food and drink orders and bring them to the table speedily. He also ensures that waiters take payments efficiently.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...