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Raising an Entrepreneur
Book

Raising an Entrepreneur

10 Rules for Nurturing Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers

New Harbinger, 2016 подробнее...


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8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable
  • Eye Opening

Recommendation

Parents agonize over how to raise independent, successful kids. Instinctually, you want to protect your kids from what seems like an increasingly dangerous and heartless world. Businesswoman and mom Margot Machol Bisnow says to resist being overprotective, guide your children gently in discovering their strengths and passions, support them no matter what path they choose and give them enormous freedom, early on, to pursue their loves. Parents should stand up for their kids’ unconventional interests, but get out of their way. Bisnow suggests letting your kids fail, letting them discover cruelty and not protecting them from adversity. This builds resilience, selflessness, determination and “grit,” the traits she says entrepreneurs need to succeed. Though her manual is sometimes repetitive and even contradictory, getAbstract thinks parents will find her advice intriguing. While you may never give your youngsters as much independence as she advocates, she bolsters your belief in them and your support for their dreams. 

Take-Aways

  • Loosely guide your children toward discovering what they love doing, but let them make the discovery on their own.
  • Enthusiastically support your children’s entrepreneurial or career choices, whether they pursue what you would have chosen or not.
  • Arm your children with morals, values and a commitment to help others.

About the Author

Margot Machol Bisnow raised two successful entrepreneurs and became one herself later in life.


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    M. A. 5 months ago
    Excellent
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    B. J. 7 years ago
    Well.. It would have been better if i could find smthn like how to bcm an entrepreneur..no plans to have a baby yet!