P. Koshy
The global market has a lot of potentials worth exploring, but how far we can we explore job creation potentials just outside our homes, within our local economy? Entrepreneurs emerge when things look gloomy. It is the innovative spirit that facilitates an economy moving forward towards recovery and not just the financial packages.There are areas that can be harnessed as feasible ventures that generate employment both in manufacturing and service sectors. At a time when the economy is showing signs of ill-health, general weakness and lack of normal vigor, new ideas and fresh initiatives become significant. Here comes the role of leadership. A novel idea coupled with the energy to sustain an initiative taken is the right mix. For instance, the services sector has plenty of unexplored spaces that one would not have hitherto been imagined, that an entrepreneur could make use of.
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Social Enterprise and Entrepreneur, though different terms, have been deciphered at different places in any English dictionary. But these English words, though coined by different persons at different times under different backdrops, are so inter-related in between and inter-dependent on each other that one can never be understood properly in exclusive isolation from the other or without their mutual reference.
1st International Convention on Enterprise Promotion will be held in Harrogate International Centre in Yorkshire on 15-17 November 2009. The event will showcase best practice and innovation in the creation and support of small businesses world-wide. 
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These individuals constantly crib about not been able to cope, but do nothing about it. Their situation is best explained by this story I read in a book written by a self-help guru :
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