Learn to Be a Calculated Risk Taker

Women business owners need additional support and it's essential for the economy to give them that support. Why?

Quick snippet before we get to the meat of the post:

According to the report entitled "Women Owned Businesses in the 21st Century," put together by the Department of Commerce, while women own about 30 percent of privately-held businesses, they account for only 11 percent of sales and 13 percent of employment, but the numbers of women striking out on their own are increasing and could well be the key to turning our country's economy around if women can get the kind of financial support that men-owned businesses typically have.

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Photo (pictured, Valerie Jarrett) credit here.   Visit Council on Women and Girls | The White House as mentioned in article.

Women Entrepreneurs Already Take Calculated Business Risks

The best of all worlds is a combination of men and women in business who understand the importance of compromise and push on to innovate better!

But let's set the record straight first before you jump to the article. Women entrepreneurs already do this:

The authors actively advise women to try and take proper credit for their actions, for example by properly communicating what they have achieved and even allying themselves with known risk-takers within an organization.

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I had no idea that the London School of Business has a Center for Women in Business! Did you?

Pictured: Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer and author.