COMMON SKILLS OF AN ENTERPRENEUR

inShare2 ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILL AND CHARACTERISTICS You've heard it said that certain careers require certain attitudes to succeed in. Policemen must possess good physical fitness and courage in the face of danger. Graphic designers must be creative, original thinkers with an artistic mind. Entrepreneurs, too, share several common characteristics that those those who hope to achieve success in the field should strive to emulate. Today we explore seven crucial characteristics of the best entrepreneurs that anyone thinking about starting a business ought to consider. Perseverance In the business world, problems...

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WHAT THE COMPUTER CAN NOT DO

        WHAT THE COMPUTER CAN NOT DO.......'' Hubert Dreyfus has been a critic of artificial intelligence research since the 1960s. In a series of papers and books, including Alchemy and AI (1965), What Computers Can't Do (1972; 1979; 1992) and Mind over Machine (1986), he presented an assessment of AI's progress and a critique of the philosophical foundations of the field. Dreyfus' objections are discussed in most introductions to the philosophy of artificial intelligence, including Russell & Norvig (2003), the standard AI textbook, and in Fearn (2007), a survey of contemporary philosophy.[1] Dreyfus argued that human intelligence and expertise depend primarily on unconscious instincts rather than conscious symbolic manipulation, and that these unconscious...

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DEVELOPMENT INDICES AND INDICATORS

Development indicators and indices document.getElementById('lightbox').style.display = 'none'; DEVELOPMENT INDICES AND INDICATORS Introduction The concept that complexity can be succinctly summarized in a single statement, picture or measure is indeed an old one. The world is a complex place and human beings have always sought ways of interpreting what they sense around them so as to help deal with that complexity. Given the pressing need to help address human suffering and poverty wherever it is found the appeal of ways to present this complexity in ways that help an intervention is thus highly understandable. Development indicators and indices (index: an aggregation of indicators into a single representation) seek...

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