Mary Paulsell At The Columbia Tribune:
Someone asked me the other day what makes entrepreneurs different from other people. I think it’s in how they see the world.
Where most of us might see a challenge or a problem, entrepreneurs see an opportunity. And when most of us might assume the current way of doing things is acceptable, an entrepreneur will see a better way.
We try to teach students of entrepreneurship to develop skills in opportunity recognition - to develop a mind-set of “What if we did this?” That ability is what seems to set apart successful entrepreneurs.
Kay Wax never thought of herself as an entrepreneur, but she definitely has the gift for opportunity recognition. Kay was trained as a social worker. The last position she had working for someone else - before she started working for herself - was in a hospital, assisting patients with their return to life and work after a medical event. If patients had limited mobility, they really struggled, and that bothered Kay.
Kay left the medical arena and started designing and building universal-design homes that would not limit residents’ independence.
She took her dad’s gift of an old Ford pickup and all the advice her contractor brother had to share and started Kay Wax Custom Homes. Despite being a woman in a traditionally male-dominated industry, Kay succeeded, meticulously designing and building homes for individuals with special needs.
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