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In Finland, politicians are calling for entrepreneurial thinking. It raises the question: what is Entrepreneurial thinking?
Biological anthropology and neuro-psychological research together demonstrate that entrepreneurial thinking defines our species.That means that its not something some people have, but that we evolved into that kind of thinking, and that inhibitors in our environment are the only reason people in general are not using these higher order mental qualities.
Entrepreneurial thinking is based on our species' general ability to experience the future (Atance and O'Neill, 2001, 2005; Gilbert and Wilson, 2007), manifested by the action of milking other people of information (Pagel, 2019), or by combining non-related real or mental objects into new distinct categories (Einstein (see Hadamard, 1996); Wynn, Coolidge and Bright, 2009; Österberg, 2012, Österberg Köping Olsson, 2018, 2021).
The latter was demonstrated by the findings of the Lion-man, which shows that members of our species had the mental ability to combine non-related objects 40 000 years ago.
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I have developed models which influence or facilitate entrepreneurial thinking.
- Generative learning management - a two-factor model for leadership that affects work climate and social creativity within organizations (Österberg, 2004, 2012).
- Rational entrepreneurial thinking (Österberg, 2021) - a three-dimensional model that affects rational prospective thinking.
The models contains a intervening variable - work climate (similar to job satisfaction), which has a ten dimensional latent structure: Clarity, Harmony, and Justice, Challenge, Independence, and Responsibility, Work facilitation, Support, and Recognition warm and friendly social relations (Locke, 1976; James and James, 1989; Ekvall, 1996).
A leader who applies these models will see an impact on organizational performance, learning, and social creativity for problem solving.
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Usually these kinds of processes are referred to as problem solving. But a Problem is not situational but a difference, between a current state and a goal-state. That implies that if you don't have a target (goal), you don't have a problem. Before trying to figure out a suitable target, it makes sense to start with the current state.
When the current state is defined, then the rather extensive work starts to figure out and formulate the target. That target is then communicated to the organization.
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