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Young Entrepreneurs; Monday, Period 6 [ 02/02 ].

After pushing the desks of the classroom together and putting out the coffee and donuts as usual, Turtle went to the blackboard and wrote on it three quotes:

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.” --Confucius

“Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.” --James Stewart

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.” --Milton Friedman

Once everyone had come into the room, she called the meeting to order with a little bang of a gavel.

She couldn't believe she hadn't thought about a gavel until now.

"Take a second," she began, "to look over these quotes. What do they all have in common? They are all about dealing with other people. As Young Entrepreneurs, dealing with people is something that you'll do an awful lot. There are lots of ways to do this, but almost every successful model of business suggests what these quotes are suggesting: you business partners are just that: your partners. Respect, virtue, and the desire for both parties to benefit is essential in a successful venture."

"...right?"

"I don't know," Turtle grinned a little, reaching for a donut, "you tell me. We've got some very different minds in this group. Do you think the egalitarian type of approach is more successful? Or is it all just optimistic hogwash, and to be successful is to be cutthroat? Let's just have have a good roundtable, yeah?"

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Still loving the hats, shush.

Edited 2009-02-02 20:07 (UTC)

Leto Atreides

Ned.

And two pies.

Alice Liddell

Jack Burton

Throw in a few cents or a dollar on the better model of business: partnership FTW?

"Wouldn't the cutthroat way, while probably gaining you some things, alienate just about everyone who might wanna help you?" Ned asked. "It seems like stepping on the little guy is just karma waiting to smack you later."

"On the other hand," Alice argued, "better to step than be stepped upon."

"It'll be a lonely existence once you get to the top, though," Ned said.

"It's equally lonely at the bottom, being squashed," Alice said, studying her desk carefully.

"Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages," Leto replied, "But in order to choose we need to define 'success'."

"By all means, then," Turtle leaned forward on the 'table,' trying to hide a little bit of a smirk, as she gestured with her arm to invite Leto to elaborate, figuring it should be pretty good. "How would you define it?"

"I don't know." He looked straight at Turtle. "But the egalitarian would define it differently than the cutthroat, because former values respect, virtue and mutuality and sees them as part of what makes them successful."

"But in business," Turtle offered, "the person running the business is not the only person in control. Well..." Turtle paused for an allowance. "Not always; I can't imagine business as usual where you're from is exactly a free market economy like it is here."

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Hang out afterwards with coffee and donuts or potentially anything else anyone might have brought to the table.

Ned had key lime pie (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/key-lime-pie-recipe/index.html) and sweet potato pie (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/old-fashioned-sweet-potato-pie-recipe2/index.html) today.

It was fun to bake on a weekly basis again.

"What is that pie?" Turtle asked, frowning a little in suspicion of the one that wasn't delicious key lime.

"Sweet potato," Ned answered. "You've never had sweet potato pie, before?"

Turtle shook her head, her skepticism growing. Then waning a little a moment later.

"Well," she said, "you make pancakes out of potatoes, why not pies, I guess?"

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