Myth or reality: do companies really want a horde of entrepreneurs?

After my article, 2020: a decade of women! to face our fears and rehabilitate our right brain where multiple intelligences nestle.

This time, I wanted to revisit this hypothesis of a business, as a home for a horde of entrepreneurs, or more simply of entreprising people.

Albert Meige in his article “Future of work: utopia or dystropia”, defines enterprising as “People capable of seeking to understand the competitive environment in which they find themselves. People capable of detecting the opportunities there hiding. People with dreams. Aspirations. Judgment. People capable of making decisions and acting when everything is moving around them. For this, we must develop, from very early childhood, what I call the entrepreneurial spirit. We have to train entrepreneurs.”

Part 1- Imagine tomorrow

Once upon a time, there was a MoonStars company, yes the one I use in my B.W.C workshop: Breathe we change, to take you into a dreamlike world, where each of you helps MoonStars employees to find their dreams to build a new world, or in competitive mode build an empire

The MoonStars company is once again attacked by a battalion of spies. This time in front of her they are digital twins with artificial intelligence capable of automatically learning from their errors, and re-programming according to an ad-hoc situation, including during cyber attacks planned to counter the twins.

At MoonStars, employees are endowed with their personal power made up of “The prince, the toad and the mask” and their exceptional entrepreneurial quality, as defined above.

In the competition, the twins are programmed, nothing stops them.

The enterprising ones were recruited on the motto of never again, which gives them the strength to recover and an extraordinary resilience. They are able to adapt and build, to reshape a future to adapt.

Often they work alone, persevere until it works, and are able to successfully do several jobs at once. On this point, see the start-up of the Lego company, which still keeps in its genes this ability to re-invent itself.

So if the enterprising come together, I bet on the collaborators of MoonStars who together will be able to imagine a harmonious world, where all the intelligences add up. So they will re-program the twins to deactivate them, or better yet to add their artificial intelligences to theirs. The twins and the men thus working for a harmonious and free world.

But now, the enterprising solitary, handymen, jack of all trades. They are the antithesis of collaborative work. Without an alliance, each proposal is rejected, dismissing each entrepreneur facing his own weaknesses, his shortcomings, his shame. And there the artificial twins will come out victorious and bring Moonstars to their knees.

So do you really think that companies want this horde of entrepreneurs?

So as I like a happy end, I will coach the Moonstars team to help them add their strength by starting to defuse the shame that gnaws at their bottom, and prevents them from finding a stable cooperation. . And I reveal to you, in the second part of this article how.

Part 2- Handling shame

Have you rubbed shoulders with the enterprising? They are numerous. They are inspiring, but very often the absence of diplomas, their differences weigh on them because on a daily basis they must always prove who they are. They sometimes see themselves as usurpers and then enter a downward spiral. Other times, so sure of themselves, they forget the others and are rejected from the group, invite to wander without an audience or torture their audience to maintain a glory that they have built with the force of their wrist …

This feeling of shame is also present in each of us, since we do not enter the “relational standard”. If I take again the simplified diagram of the various zones of our brain, the right part shelters the reptilian and prefrontal territories, where our creativity and our emotions are lodged, and the center of fear, topic of my previous article.

The left part houses the paleolimbic and neolimbic territories, which give us confidence and an analytical mind. I will situate the shame, in the paleonimbic territories.

 

Répartition des différents marqueurs de comportements dans nos cerveaux

Shame occurs when you lose confidence. Someone who has made spelling mistakes from an early age is often blocked, considered incapacitated by their inability to write correctly. Dyslexics are starting to be rehabilitated, but there is still a long way to go in their daily lives to feel good.

Very often, shame takes over, the person underestimates himself and hides from others, unsuitable, judged by everyone as illiterate, uncultivated, stigmatized by his repetitive mistakes and his truncated words or reversed letters.

If this is repeated and nothing gives this person confidence, shame will kill them as a unique person, they will be a shadow of themselves, discreet very often, aggressive sometimes, and always sad.

For others, shame, guided by the never again, will lead them towards a freedom of thinking, a relentless will to take responsibility, to be autonomous and whatever the others think.

They will be these crazy crazy intra-stakeholders, able to connect worlds to each other. They will trust their defects, to strengthen their talents and move forward positively in their lives. They will be forgiving for themselves and forgiving for others. Their confidence will overflow and encourage others, even in their mistakes. Besides, they do it every day and draw inspiration from it to learn and bounce back. If they succeed, they will often partner with these inspiring leaders.

Why cure shame?

Shame, buried deep within us, saps our confidence, triggers power struggles, aggression and hatred. Rejection of the other

This rejection being the only place we have left to live, it will be defended tooth and nail. In some cases also, recognition if it is lost can trigger the revenge side of our toad to preserve what we had so much trouble building.

It is therefore essential for our personal balance to heal us from our shame. The latter can come from a cultural or educational heritage, it eats our energy and our joie de vivre.

How to clean your wounds?

The process begins with the identification of this shame. It is found in all the repeated moments of life when we dissuade ourselves from doing something that we love to do because we feel incompetent.

Our heart tightens and closes. What good is it that chasing, no one will notice us and if we are noticed it will be worse.

Well no. If the why not and the desire to do are present:it means that you have something to learn, to gain and to overcome your sense of shame. It is not the others, but your own outlook that must be changed. Be forgiving with yourself. Breathe and try.

I suggest an exercise in spontaneous writing, dialogue with your left hand if you are right-handed and vice versa if you are left-handed. Take a notebook, and write with your left hand the first word that comes to mind on the left page. Then let your right hand respond on the right page. You will be surprised at the depth of the thoughts thus exchanged.

Little by little you will regain confidence in yourself and in your ability to be yourself. Especially do it for you, expect nothing from others. You must first look at yourself with indulgence, then the look of others on you will change.

When you regain your confidence, others will give you theirs.

So please, never give up! and be yourself for yourself.

Links to other articles:

Future of work: utopia or dystopia by Albert Meige

What is shame ? by François Dortier

The 3 phases of shame by Hélène Lemoine

Creativity, and spontaneous writing

“The prince, the toad and the mask”

2020: I wish you a very pretty women’s decade

Vidéo

The resilience of an entrepreneur, the start-up of the legendary business Lego

 

Article written by Dominique Popiolek-Ollé, founder In Imago