{"id":11441,"date":"2017-07-25T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=11441"},"modified":"2018-12-09T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T18:37:12","slug":"where-your-future-entrepreneurs-and-business-leaders-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2017\/07\/where-your-future-entrepreneurs-and-business-leaders-come-from.html","title":{"rendered":"Where your future entrepreneurs and business leaders come from"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It won’t be long until these girls are their town’s business leaders and entrepreneurs.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A reader wrote to me about an influx of low-income people into his town, using subsidized housing and other community services. He said a town council member had talked about them as “a drain on resources” and “dead weight.”<\/p>\n

I got angry when I read that. But it took me awhile to figure out the real reason.<\/p>\n

My reply to the reader was just this:<\/p>\n

What if the families with low income are actually your best asset, your potential entrepreneurs, and within a generation will be your business leaders?<\/strong><\/p>\n

And now we get to the real reason I got angry. Because this is my family’s story. My great-grandmother was a teacher who relied on subsidized housing, staying with families in the school district until the community banded together to build a tar paper shack for her to live in with her daughter. On the other side of the family, my grandfather moved his family through a series of run-down, borrowed farmhouses as he tried to recover financially from the great depression and serving in the second world war and the hard times immediately after.<\/p>\n

Both of these people worked their way up to being self-sufficient and more, and their children became business and civic leaders in their communities.<\/p>\n

Yes, times have changed, and people are different. That doesn’t change my original question:<\/p>\n

What if the families with low income are actually your best asset, your potential entrepreneurs, and within a generation will be your business leaders? How would you treat them then?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You help them start that journey today with the\u00a0Innovative Rural Business Models<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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