Common Virtue Group

Common Virtue Group is consortium of experienced entrepreneurs and business experts devoted to growing business competency in local communities. Common Virtue believes that the escalating extinction of traditional jobs can be remedied by re-inventing the merchant and trade classes in local economies thereby preserving economic inclusion and relevance for those who would otherwise depend on traditional employment. The Common Virtue vision includes developing basic business and finance skills in young people as a element of core education, immersion business training for aspiring entrepreneurs, assessment and skills management for post-launch ventures and fund raising for businesses that have reached viability. Common Virtue emphasizes immersion and experience-based learning over traditional academic education models. Drawing from the way family businesses train and develop family members through practical skills and wisdom transfer, Common Virtue believes that entrepreneurship can be effectively developed in people of even limited standard education. To do this, business competency needs to be treated more like a trade skill rather than an abstract academic subject that must be interpreted and applied. Prior to the Industrial Age, family businesses were the norm rather than the exception. In the Post-industrial Age, wealth distribution, social and political stability will depend on preparing people to build and operate small businesses In the U.S, over two-thirds of all net job growth in the past thirty years or more has come from small businesses. Big corporate job growth is a dangerous myth and with the rapid advance of automation and off-shoring, the working class in industrial countries is becoming irrelevant and unnecessary. Common Virtue is devoted to creating new economic opportunities for those falling out of the Post-industrial economy by making business competency possible for all and supporting a revitalizing village economies.