BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS; Entrepreneurship skills we need to cultivate in kids.

   

The sweet independence of being your own boss is what entrepreneurship is all about. That's why kids and entrepreneurship is such an excellent match. It practically comes natural to them.          

First Entrepreneurship skill to be cultivated; Resilience 

Allow kids to express emotions and maximize their feelings and help them work along their negative feelings to positive ones.  

Second Entrepreneurship skill to be cultivated; Innovation & Creativity 

Let them play, it's when kids play that they engage all of their creative energies.  

Third Entrepreneurship skill to be cultivated; Industriousness 

Build independence by giving kids the responsibility for getting things done. Adults should lead by example and reduce or nullify their own time wasting habits. 

Fourth Entrepreneurship skill to be cultivated; Curiosity 

Encourage them to start new hobbies and pursue their interests no matter how impractical. Try having tech-free outings with your kids to museums and activity centers. 

Fifth Entrepreneurship skill to be cultivated; Self Confidence

Encourage their opinions and give them opportunities to make decisions. Even if it's not what you do, let them make choices and learn from experience.  

Sixth Entrepreneurship skill to be cultivated; Optimism 

Try to share positive stories and inspirational talks with your kids and encourage positive thinking. 

Seventh Entrepreneurship skill to be cultivated; Sharing & Caring 

Encourage kids to help out around the neighborhood, Improve charitable instincts and promote becoming a part of a continent than an island. 

Most parents have a strong resistance to promote or encourage their children to be entrepreneurs due to the perceived social recognition and interpretation that entrepreneurs are less educated and acknowledged than professionals or government servants because traditional professions such as being a doctor, lawyer, engineer or accountant are still widely considered to be more secure and stable. Therefore the perception among the masses of the role of an entrepreneur in society must be given more publicity as technology, literacy, success stories, case studies and overall awareness about the benefits of being an entrepreneur should be shared far and wide, only then we can consider the entrepreneurial culture of the country will begin to expand and develop in the future. 

Sharpening a child's entrepreneurial skills will equip them with the skills necessary to tackle a limitless future. Therefore dear parents help your kid, your siblings kids, your kids in the neighborhood to develop and enhance their entrepreneurial skills to become an entrepreneur. 

To be continued...

                                                 

ඔසවමු කා.ස.ම මාතා ඉහළට.......

හෙට දින නැග එන හිරු දැකගන්නට

සිතෙහි සවිය දෑතින් රොද බඳිනට 

ජීවිත සටනින් නිති ජය ලැබුමට 

අත් වැල් බැඳ ගමු අපි අද හනිකට 

විසිරුණු සවි බල එක තැනකට ගෙන 

සිහි නුවණින් සැම විමසා ලන්නට 

පොත පත සහ අත් දැකුමට මුල් තැන 

දී නංවමු අපගේ මව් මුදුනට 

සතර කොනම වසමින් මුළු දිවයින 

සේවා සපයන අරුමය කදිමය 

ඔබ සිටිනා බැව් නැවත දැනුම් දෙන 

අඬහැරයයි අපගෙන් ලෝකය වෙත 

නැංවීමයි කම්හල් මුළු මෙදියත 

අභියෝගයත් එයම වෙයි සැක නැත

දෑත් සියල්ලෙහි පිරුනොත් කරගැට 

අලුත් ඉරක් පායයි සිරිලක හෙට 

සොයුරනි එක්වවූ නැගුමට කා.ස.ම 

පිදුමට පුබුදින තුරුණු වියට හෙට 

තාක්ෂණය දුර දැක්මක් සමඟින 

කා.ස.ම මෑණිය ඔසවමු ඉහළට 

වැසුණු දොරටු යළි විවර කරන්නට 

ගුණ නුවණින් ලෝකය ජය ගන්නට 

කුසගිනි දහසින් දුරු කරලන්නට 

බමනට සැරසෙමු දැතිරෝදය අද 

Why Entrepreneurship; A concise sneak in

Entrepreneurship creates employment, utilizes resources, introduces new technology, brings foreign income and does many more to a country.

"Entrepreneurship means an individual's ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives………………………." (European Parliament & Council, 2017)

Considering the Sri Lankan economy, Small and medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) provide 45% of employment and contributes to 52% of Gross Domestic Production (GDP). They contribute to innovations such as new products, services and wealth creation which are all essential to a healthy economy. It has been the major driving force in Sri Lanka for so many years but still it is underestimated. According to the Department of Census & statistics, 2017 the unemployment by level of education; GCE A/L & above has increased from 8.2% to 9.2% and this keeps increasing rapidly, when it comes to entrepreneurship it helps to eradicate unemployment and create new job opportunities. Either it is product or service based enterprise, giving the opportunity to grow will allow more people to involve and earn a living out of it. For an instance an entrepreneur who identifies a business opportunity and starting an education institution provide service to children, when he grows and expand the services, more young graduates will gain the opportunity to work as lecturers, and then there will be room for supportive staff and operational staff as well. People get jobs, getting jobs they get a source of income, getting a source of income would pacify their needs in life, by being pacified they feel happy and society becomes a friendly place to live. Among the many global indexes there is an index created to measure happiness as well. So this process get enables because of Entrepreneurship.

Therefore the entrepreneurship is there to create happy faces in the community.

Information Systems Security; Major concern in Past, Present and Future

Information Systems security is one of the biggest challenges facing society’s technological age.  Information Systems have become an integral part of everyday life in the home, businesses, government, and organizations.  Information Systems have changed the way that people live their lives, conduct business, even run the government.   Information Systems have become such an important part of everyday life because there are many uses of Information Systems that make it much easier and faster to perform certain tasks, or even to perform certain tasks simultaneously.  

Information Systems have become so developed and detailed in their short history.  Society has developed along with the Information Systems, becoming a more technologically-reliable generation, also known as the digital firm era.  Along with an increasing reliability for Information Systems, the digital firm era has also brought about an increasing profitability, competitiveness, and efficiency for any business of any size that uses an Information Systems. 

Since the current technological generation has become so dependent upon Information Systems, the problems threatening Information Systems also threaten the order of everyday activities that many take for granted.  The intricate role that Information Systems plays in daily activities has been developed near to perfection, but there are many current problems such as spamming, hacking, jamming, malicious software, sniffing, spoofing, and identity theft.  These current problems are threatening the reliability and security of Information Systems.  

With these current problems threatening Information Systems, users of Information Systems have been in the search for new techniques and new technology that will help fix the devastating consequences. Along with new techniques and new technology fixing these problems, users of Information Systems must also protect themselves. The future of Information Systems is somewhat unknown since it lies in the hands of the users.  This unexpectedness also means  with many unexpected problems that the users will have to solve.

To be continued ...