Chapters Overview

What’s Ahead

The Age of Metapreneurship is a journey, traveling from old terrain to the new. Together, we’ll explore entrepreneurship’s recent past, and how the past is starting to hold us back. We’ll look at the major forces shaping business, culture, customers and technology, and see how they converge to create a new style of entrepreneurship: Metapreneurship.

Part 1
Is about: What’s wrong with entrepreneurship; a plethora of formulas how-to books, memoirs;  the tools, techniques and leaders – are fighting the “last war” from the past  and are not as effective today.  They are failing today’s entrepreneurs.

• Chaos: Entrepreneurship in chaos.
• Cults: Entrepreneurship’s institutions and tools – once powerful, are now becoming ineffective.
• Dots: Business models and mindsets in chaos, and in transition.

Part 2

How a series of cultural, technology and business changes converged – changed entrepreneurship.  What are the new priorities and the new techniques:

• The foundations of Metapreneurship.
• Converging forces. The familiar combines into something new.
• The New Terrain: Metapreneurship.
• Chain reactions and movements.

Part 3

When it all comes together – these converging forces – what does new entrepreneurship look like.  And how does it affect experts – the experienced:

• Emerging new behaviors: New customers, new employees, new companies.
• The Greatest Generation: Seasoned entrepreneurs and their role in the Age of Metapreneurship.
• The new entrepreneurs: The Metapreneurs.