How do you tell whether you are a successful entrepreneur and investor or merely a romantic speculator and wishful thinker? Having dreams and ideas is not enough to make a good business, with or without the assistance of public funding and government promotion.
If you run a business, whether in Adelaide, or elsewhere in the world, or even all over the world, you may be feeling buoyantly confident at present or drowning in a sea of debt and disillusion. Will you feel the same way six months from now? How will you feel six years from now?
I have never been a politician, a public servant or an Adelaide (wishful) Thinker in Residence, but I have experienced life as the owner of several businesses. Most recently, though, I have been known as a somewhat incompetent volunteer in the magnificent music room, which is just down the corridor from the Adelaide Adagia newsroom.The main problem for many business owners, as I see it, is that productively imaginative activities are not rewarded by governments or the public as much as the unimaginative consumption of (unproductive) products. A lack of good customers is probably the primary reason for my own limited business credentials. Having little business confidence could also be a factor.
I would love to be able to employ suitably productive people more directly and permanently than I do at present, as would my current boss, who is also the editor and owner of Adelaide Adagia. My boss is very serious about encouraging a responsible work ethic in everyone, but she is also known for being ethereal, unreal and surreal. Perhaps she is a bit like your boss, or even your bank manager.
If you would like me or my boss to employ you, either directly or indirectly, how do you already support imaginative and useful Adelaide enterprises?
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