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Article: How to grow a CEO. (training children: includes sources)(Career Mannnagement)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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WHEN CHILDREN PROM HARLEM'S
Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship (IYE) had trouble selling the greeting cards that were a product of New York Colors, their own company, one youngster simply refused to take "no" for an answer. If he couldn't sell the box of 10 cards for $10, he would try selling them individually at $1 a piece. His innovative thinking paid off. The cards that wouldn't sell, did.
Steve Lawrence, executive director of IYE, calls this kind of ingenuity "thinking outside the box," and says it's one of several identifiable characteristics that distinguish a child with entrepreneurial potential. Other qualities that are equally important are ...