By all indications, our country should be among the richest and wealthiest, but in practice this is not at all the case. One of the reasons for this is that decades of a planned economy have completely destroyed people’s skills such as economic thinking. Because of this, the average layman simply does not understand how to manage his own money, and you will not find competent managers in the afternoon with fire.
Nevertheless, the whole society is interested in growing adequate entrepreneurs, and if you fully see yourself in this role, you should take care to comply with it, and not burn out in the shortest possible time.
What it is?
Clarifying the concept of economic thinking to a novice is not so simple, but we still try to parse the term. If you argue simply, then economic thinking is a certain type of thinking and building logic that allows you to clearly see the benefit (or potential failure) of a particular investment. A person with developed economic thinking rarely encounters unforeseen capital losses - he knows how to calculate all the risks, clearly understands what the consumer needs, and is able to offer him the product or service that he is looking for. The presence of economic thinking allows you to immediately cut off various dubious options for making a profit like lotteries and casinos - the happy owner of the “right” skills never takes risks, but always draws up a clear plan and follows it, achieving success.
Origin and further the development of economic thinking is highly dependent on the current situation in the economy. There is a clear correlation between the first and second - if there are no “teachers” in the form of successful entrepreneurial cases, it is not surprising that the average layman is not capable of disposing of him in such a way as to make a profit. The natural formation of economic thinking in each individual person depends on his environment, including rather unexpected areas - spiritual and socio-political.
In the process of the evolution of society and the growing need for adequate managers, economic thinking began to increasingly acquire the features of a discipline worthy of a separate study. The essence and content of the subject were formalized in trainings and courses, allowing more efficient management of the enterprise.
Despite the fact that entrepreneurship is in many respects a creative process and cannot be adjusted to a coarse and tight framework, even an ordinary layman should know the basics if he is interested in multiplying his own wealth.
Specialists identify several types of economic thinking., their number depends on who the author of the classification is. Globally, the type of economic thinking is any behavior in the economy that is characteristic of a large number of people and is determined by certain characteristics of the society in which people grew up and comprehended the foundations of the economy. A good example is the so-called mythological economic thinking, in one form or another, characteristic of any societies at an early stage of development.
Primitive people did not believe in their own strengths, in their calculations they were guided mainly by the hope of interference from above, and therefore a priori they could not be rich. In addition, individualism at that stage of the development of civilization could not exist at all, since a member of society was inconceivable without the whole of society. Therefore, about individual entrepreneurship, and even in the absence of any legislative protection of the enterprise from lawlessness, there was no question.
The simplest classification of types of economic thinking involves dividing into template and creative thinking. The stereotyped one presupposes activity according to a certain established model - a person acts according to schemes verified by many generations. Most often, this method helps to survive, but cannot make someone truly rich.
From this point of view, creative economic thinking is much more promising - in itself, it does not give any guarantees, but its presence significantly increases a person's chances to change the foundations of the whole society, and at the same time become truly successful.
Specific traits
Each economic thinking has its own characteristics, but in recent decades, against the backdrop of rapid globalization, the discipline has been largely unified, and today we can say that the principles of economic thinking as a discipline to study are already approximately the same throughout the world. In an effort to educate a person with economic thinking, the authors of the trainings rely on two main areas.
The first of these is aimed at enhancing innovation and creativity. Template economic thinking in an age of rapid technological development does not bode well, and development would not have been possible if it had not been for the correctly targeted fantasy of the engines of social progress. A good manager should be able to immediately see the shortcomings of what already exists, and direct his mind to search for alternative solutions that can solve the problem. The ability to offer something new is equally useful for both the innovator and the grateful society. The creative approach in the modern economy is perhaps the only thing that will make it possible to achieve tremendous success throughout human life.
Second important aspect - instilling in trainees a global approach to any problem.Modern transport and the degree of mutual integration between world economies are such that it would be criminal to look for ways to solve the problem only directly in front of you. Practice proves that the adequate use of developed creative abilities allows you to see the benefits in complex schemes with the participation of contractors from several countries.
Please note that almost always the most successful companies are those that entered the world market, and not domestic monopolists, even in the largest states.
Again, such success is due to the fact that the globalization of goods and services is beneficial for consumers as well - thanks to this they can count on improving the assortment.
How to form?
The formation of modern economic thinking is largely depends on which system was originally laid in the student’s head. The fact is that talking about the complete absence of economic thinking is wrong for someone - using money in everyday life, a person is already faced with a primitive economy and has experience of economic thinking at the initial, empirical level. A teacher educating a potential manager will inevitably have to build on what is already there.
Historical and geographical feature of our country lies in the fact that it is huge - in order to control it, a strong sovereign was needed, otherwise a mess would reign in the country, and it would simply break up. The mentality of our fellow citizens implies that the boss is not just a more intelligent and respected person, but also a very real threat. A potential manager must understand the subtleties of the psychology of Russian subordinates, who, not afraid to fall under the punishing right, are unlikely to work at full strength.
The last statement also has a very specific historical reason - because of the wealth of Russian lands and low population density, it was not difficult for our ancestors to survive, because the easy lentz was deposited at the genetic level.
No matter how outstanding the idea of the boss may be, subordinates will successfully fail it, because a good manager in our country is, first of all, “sovereign”. It is necessary to be prepared for the fact that there will probably not be any sensible initiative from below, and if so, then all planning entirely falls entirely on the shoulders of the entrepreneur, he also exercises strict control over the implementation.
Nevertheless, if possible, you should try to avoid a purely punitive role, and even more so - you should try to create yourself an image of a benefactor.
It is not in vain that in the Russian Empire, lackeys gladly died for the priest-tsar — they sincerely believed that he, like God, simply did not know about the misadventures of his subjects, but the landowners oppressed them of their own will.
At the same time, the entrepreneur himself should be deprived of any hope of a miraculous improvement in the situation in which he found himself. Being above the level of ordinary people and well versed in the economic realities of our country, the manager should know that even at the highest levels everything is decided mainly by bribes or inappropriately prolonged bureaucratic procedures, which can be avoided in the same way. We by no means strive to bleach bribery, but in any business plan in Russia, a certain percentage should be included for “unforeseen expenses”. Or is it worth at least leaving a substantial gap of time to overcome bureaucracy.
