Call and Response

The times call for revamping of antiquated approaches, the adaptation of ingenuity and a metamorphosis of how we conduct business but what will the response be?

With a recent report out by the National Bureau of Economic Research it was declared that the country has been in a recession since December of '07 (thanks for letting us know. . .I didn't think any of us knew this). 

With the housing market crash kicking it all off followed (a year and some change later) by the collapsing of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and AIG and the recent buckling of GM, Ford and Chrysler (and let's throw in Citigroup for good measure) it is evident that the marketplace is in dire need of real leadership. Needed are people who understand that the market will only correct itself when you: allow more competition, unleash the reigns on the creative market and permit innovative ideas to joust with one another.  Not just bailouts for businesses who have lost their competitive edge.  But the question is from where will this leadership come from? 

Often those who are stewards of new ideas and rebels for new causes don't necessarily step up to the plate because they want to but they do so because the circumstances at that moment in time give them no alternative.  And today, right now. . . these are such times. 

This brings to mind the timeless saying - Leaders are born, not made. Today, at this very moment, the time is right for those with novel ideas, new thinking and fresh approaches to be bold and stare, unflinchingly into the mouth of today's troubled and seriously rattled environment.

Who better to be thrust into the present chaos than the entrepreneur?  The poster child for competitiveness, creativity and innovation?

In times which have entrepreneurial thinking written all over it, (and "leadership needed" emblazoned across its  front cover) I wonder about the above saying but with a slight twist: Entrepreneurs are born, not made.  Are these times where one, who is business minded, who simply by nature, was born to thrive in (or any other time for that matter) or can someone train to be entrepreurial, where the rule of law is uncertainty - especially in times like these?

I would love to hear what you think.