What we lack in Government is entrepreneurial ability.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker claims the Government lacks entrepreneurial ability.
- In plain terms
- The government does not know how to be entrepreneurial.
- What can you take from it?
- Government may lack business-like innovation skills.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does government need to be entrepreneurial?
- What skills are missing?
Another view
It oversimplifies government functions as purely entrepreneurial.
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