After the industrial revolution the world became faster, more urgent, accelerated. The rise of the entrepreneurial activity, such as the increase in startup creation and increasing participation of the user in the innovation process (user innovation), are effects observed of this more accelerated world.
In this accelerated world, entrepreneurs may find themselves executing activities; however more biased by variables from the external environment — such as being influenced by methodologies and processes fundamented by prior successes of others.
In this context, she runs the risk of losing her own identity, she executes her steps in the shadow of others. This approach for entrepreneurship, that denies her creative potential, creates a situation that can lead to a high degree of frustration, along the road; specially due to the possibility that real innovation won't emerge out of following other people steps.
This book is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to recover their true entrepreneurial spirit – something that everyone have. For this opportunity to become real, we must focus in being more conscious about ourselves; beyond anything respect our individual and our dreams. In this more urgent, more accelerated world, where abundance of solutions are pressuring us, even the generalist becomes a specialist — exactly because they now have too many processes. This material is a chance for reflection about how we may be a follower of this urgent world. With that, we want to be more aware and more productive. Urgent Entrepreneurship is about looking at yourself, at the world, and developing more conscious for how you execute your steps. In this journey we will need to allow more time for the things that are important, not always what seems to be urgent.
This is yet another book about entrepreneurship and behavior, bringing an opportunity for reflection for entrepreneurs, mainly to the ones that are open to learn but are concerned and frustrated that the world of entrepreneurship now offers too many interaction points and they can feel to be lost in the path. With an urgency for delivery, and in front of a vast amount of information and interaction opportunities, the entrepreneur can be lost amid platforms offering information, services — too many plug and play solutions for entrepreneurs such as frameworks, methodologies, and worse - the generalized sense of urgency. As entrepreneurship turned in a sort of interactive game, this book aims to offer an opportunity to reflect about the speed of things so that the entrepreneur can stop and consider herself in the middle of everything, her principles, her goals; and better develop a sense for her own path.