Please visit this Wikipedia link. It explains what individual initiative, AKA individualism, is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism
Individual initiative in anything, including economics, is when a single person decides to take some action, and does so.
The free enterprise system of the US promotes individual initiative because it propagates the idea that every individual can be an entrepreneur and start his own business.
Private ownership individual initiative profit competition
Private ownership Individual Initiative Profit Competition
Private ownership individual initiative profit competition
Individual initiative in anything, including economics, is when a single person decides to take some action, and does so.
initiative
The free enterprise system of the US promotes individual initiative because it propagates the idea that every individual can be an entrepreneur and start his own business.
You cannot "measure" initiative because it is a characteristic or quality of behaviour with no numerical basis. You can assess an individual's initiative by, for example, qualitatively gauging the efficiency and success of that person in solving a problem by it.
Faith!
burying individual initiative under layers of bureaucracy.
Private ownership individual initiative profit competition
Private ownership Individual Initiative Profit Competition
Private ownership individual initiative profit competition
private ownership, individual initiative, profit, and competition
Yes, there is a government initiative that is completely open run, created and voted on by individual people from all over the world.
Herbert Hoover