The wheel has turned a full circle.
In the mid-90s, I used to do a column titled Enterprise for the newspaper I was then working for. The idea behind the column was to spotlight the spirit of enterprise shown by some of the first and second generation Emirati businessmen, which distinguished them from the rest of their countrymen, who were rather content to remain as sleeping partners in expatriate business ventures.
The series was quite well-received, but in a matter of months, it became clear that sustaining such a column was a difficult task. At the first instance, the list of potential candidates was becoming shorter with each passing month, and even within the availability list, there was a certain reluctance to being featured in a newspaper.
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