The next 2 days, I have 3 speaking engagements.  As you probably know by now, I like to talk and write, and welcome many opportunities to talk to students, professional groups, and various clubs on various topics.  I have learned that when you talk, you can only share one central idea in a space of 10 minutes, and probably 2 or 3 only if the talk is 30 minutes, so I try to lace the speech with stories, but point to a central message that I would like to impart.

May 11 morning I will talk to about 50 officers from the Department of Trade and Industry who I will impress even in a developing country, intellectual property respect is the currency of the new economy, and you can only grow if that respect is backup by necessary legislation and corresponding implementation.

May 11 afternoon I will talk to some hundreds of government workers.  The talk is organized by the Center of Entrepreneurship, and I am supposed to share experiences which will encourage government employees to look at being entrepreneurial ?  I am not sure if organizing such event will get the desired results, but one of the things I believe is worthwhile sharing is that you don’t have to quit your job to be entrepreneurial.  Within the company, if you are the boss, you can encourage employees to be creative and entrepreneurial which will benefit their output and results.  I know some bosses frown at encouraging entrepreneurship lest they lose workers, but I think we can encourage that in the context of still keeping a job.

However, much as entrepreneurship has worked for me, I would be very much the last person to get people to jump to it, especially not without a safety parachute.  Entrepreneurship is not for everybody, and going into it without being equipped and ready can be a harrowing experience, as well as a money-losing one.

May 12 morning, I speak to about 70 engineers who have just passed the professional certification board on electronics and communications  They have given me blanket authority to say what I want. I guess they want me to be inspirational, and exhort the people to excellence and to dream big.  So, ” Look at your certification at not a license to just get a better job.  Look at it as a license to change the world.”

I’d very much happy to know what else I can share, and if there are also areas or questions you would like to cover here in the blog, you can write me here.