EBD - Entrepreneur and Business Development

 

PV is Bottom-Up Development

1. Personal Power- Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Emotional, Financial.

2. Economic Power – Lateral Thinking.

3. Positional Power – Parabolic & Holistic Thinking.

The first five years of the PV Program was on personal power development.

The second 5-10 years has been focused on economic power development. Personal development will of course continue.

Economic power development means involving communities in provinces. It means developing an entrepreneurial class society with PV the foundation of this development.

This mean access to the PV Program must commence with the PV training course and continue with the EDTC ENTREPRENEUR & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT (EBD) Courses.

 

Positional Power must come last. The best leaders are wise, experienced people with personal and economic power. These people are in the best position to make decisions for the people and to build a just society with peace, freedom and prosperity.

Nothing on earth grows from the top down. Everything grows bottom up. And yet most programs are designed to start at levels above bottom. Maybe, it is because we do not know where the bottom is. But that is one reason why things do not seem to work.

In PV we teach from the bottom up. We start with the development of Personal Power before we go into Economic Power.

The fruits of Positional Power are not likely to be realized without Economic Power.

Without personal power, nothing gets done. Understanding is good. But it will not do the job. Knowledge is vital. But knowledge has no power. Only personal power can organize something to happen. Personal power is action.

The diagram below depicts and compares various situations in everyday life.

 

 

Training Courses	Power Structure	Economy	Thinking	Society	Culture	World Capitalism
EBD	Positional Power	Politics-Decision Makers	Leadership Parabolic & Holistic Thinking	Policy makers	Upper Class	First World
EBD	Economic Power	Small Medium & Large enterprises	Commercial Lateral Thinking	Entrepreneurs	Middle Class	Second World
PV	Personal Power	Informal Sector	Subsistence Linear Thinking	Workers	Lower Class	Third World

 

Human and Economic Development Strategy

(Bottom up development)

 

 

 

 

Thinking and Action

The success of this program will ultimately be the result of a shift in consciousness (in the way we think) from Linear Thinking (Subsistence) to Lateral Thinking (Commercial).

Some examples to show the difference in thinking & action:

 

No	COMMERCIAL THINKING (Lateral Thinking)	SUBSISTENCE THINKING (Linear Thinking)
1	Organize things to happen.	Wait for things to happen.
2	Produce for tomorrow.	Produce for today only.
3	Forward planning. Pre-planned.	No planning – Adhoc.
4	Quality	Anyhow will do.
5	Quantity – economy of scale.	Productivity to satisfy today’s needs.
6	Act	Re-act
7	Customer is boss.	He is boss
8	Confront & resolve problems.	Ignore problems until crisis time- violence.
9	Objective	Personal- emotional
10	Negotiate	No options except force.
11	Opportunities	Lack opportunities.
12	Good housekeeping – Record everything, Monitor budget against actuals.	No housekeeping, no records, operate in the dark.
13	Systematic.	Haphazard.
14	Informed	Uninformed
15	Cost effective	Expensive
16	Punctual	Always Late – Procrastinate
17	Ahead of Schedule	Last minute rush.
18	Attention to details	Uninformed
19	Professional finish.	Work badly finished or not finished properly
20	Be your Best	Short-cut to get rich

 

Notes

We are led to believe that the major constraint to business development is lack of access to credit.

PV sees one of the major impediments to economic development for communities is in the way people think and do things.

By and large, people have never been taught to think commercially (lateral thinking). Therefore most activities are what we call “subsistence” or “livelihood”. A village trade store is not commercial in the true sense. It is really a “subsistence” trade store. For example, family members work without pay. Trading hours are not fixed.

Therefore, when people talk of viability, it is in terms of “subsistence” context and not “commercial”. This is probably one of the hardest hurdles to overcome. And yet if PNG is to ultimately control its own economy, answers must be found to overcome this hurdle.

The PV Program was designed to help alleviate and eventually overcome this problem. This cannot be done entirely in the classroom. It must be practiced daily, initially under supervision, until it becomes a habit.

And this is how we institutionalize PV.

 

EDTC Business Training Courses

There are four business courses. The duration of each business course covers a two-week

period.  Click on the hyperlinks below to see the syllabus for each course.

 

INTRODUCTORY BUSINESS	designed for the beginner, people who have never been in business
FEASIBILITY STUDIES	designed for the serious entrepreneur who wants to set up his business properly for long-term gain
RCS MANAGEMENT	for those already in business and determined to avoid disasters that may well undo all his/her untiring efforts
MANAGEMENT	for the professional manager or entrepreneur

 

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