Businessmen (and women) have been around since the beginning of time. At Business MBA we decided to take take a look at some of the more vivid types of businessmen through history, all the way down to the modern businessman.
The Cave Businessman
Business skills: Surviving, hunting, gathering, not freezing to death.
Notable Figures: Fred Flinstone, the Geico Caveman.
The Neolithic Businessman
Business skills: Agriculture, ditch digging, sailing, construction, pottery
Notable figures: Mother Goddess (first known ceramic figurine.)
Classic Businessman
Business skills: Philosophy, democracy, athleticism, and an godlike qualities
Notable figures: Socrates, Hermes (Greek God of commerce)
Medieval Businessman
Business skills: Sword Fighting, Archery, Wizardry, Jesting, jousting, peasantry,
Notable Figures: King Arthur, Merlin
The Exploration Businessman
Business skills: Navigation, ship building, mercantilism, cartography, piracy.
Notable Figures: Christopher Columbus, Magellan.
The Renaissance Businessman
Business skills: Painting, playwriting, acting, architecture, inventing
Notable Figures: Shakespear, DaVinci
The Reformed Businessman
Business skills: Preaching, avoiding the plague, witchcraft, battling at sea
Notable Figures: Pocahontas, Queen Elizabeth,
The Enlightened Businessman
Business skills: Science, electricity, freedom, democracy, politicking
Notable figures: Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette,
The Industrial Businessman
Business skills: Team work on Assembly Line, laying railroad tracks, mining
Notable Figures: Henry Ford, Rockefeller
The Roaring Businessman
Business skills: Bootlegging, borrowing money, partying at speakeasies
Notable Figures: Al Capone, Betty Boop
The Depressed Businessman
Business skills: Hopping trains, Circus Acts, Jack of all trades, New Deal roadwork
Notable Figures: FDR, George Gershwin
The Baby Booming Businessman
Business skills: Baby Making, Rocket science, Protesting, Rock 'n Roll
Notable Figures: Neil Armstrong, Janice Joplin, Richard Nixon.
The .com Businessman
Business skills: HTML, typing, email, finding cell service.
Notable figures: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs. Tim Berners-Lee
Today's Businessman
Highly educated: In Fall 2011, a record 19.7 million students attended US universities, an increase of 4.4million since fall 2000. A record breaking 873,000 are expected to get a Masters degree or higher in 2012.
Always connected: During downtime, 91 percent of employees check their smartphone every six to 12 minutes.
Completely Mobile: 3 of 5 workers say they do not need to be in the office anymore to be productive and The average mobile user works 240 hours a year longer than the workforce in general
Worldwide Networking: constantly scouring social networks for opportunities.
Environmentally aware and motivated:
- Current administration has set goal to get 80% of electricity from clean energy by 2035.
- Clean economy job growth 9.1%, traditional job growth 3.7%
- Over 2.1 million hybrids sold.
- $44,000 - Median Wage of Typical Clean Economy job
- $38.616 - National Median Wage.
Health conscious:
- In 2011, 87% expressed concern about the nutritional content of the food they eat
- Seven out of ten say they have changed their eating habits in the past 3-5 years due to health concerns.
- Most people (92 percent) find health and nutrition information important when searching for healthy foods at the grocery store.
Financial Tightening: due to recession, 2/3rd of today's workers working longer hours than in 2008, and 1/3rd have taken less vacation days.
