Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria

Download or read book Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria written by Stanley Igwe and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This assessment draws upon historical evidence to rewardingly establish that entrepreneurship can only thrive where its culture prevails and that the phenomenon is more about value addition and less about risk-taking. Within this realm, historical records show that the most rewarding entrepreneurial actions were undertaken without risks or investment capital. For example, by 'simply' advancing that productivity would increase if jobs were simplified via a 'one best way' by which each and every specific task could be performed, Frederick Taylor (1856-1915) not only attracted a fortune to himself, he attracted and still does to present day institutions that follow his prescriptions all over the world.William Shakespeare (1582-1616) is considered to have drawn much of the plots of his Roman tragedies from Plutarch's (AD 46 -120) 'Parallel lives of illustrious Greeks and Romans' (Spencer, 1964); but Shakespeare who also wrote as many as 38 plays and 154 sonnets is considered the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest playwright of all time because he acted entrepreneurially by adding artistic value to existing tales and stories of ancient Greek and Roman folklore among other contributions.