Juliette gordon low

Quick Facts

• Birth Date: October 31, 1860
• Place Of Birth: Savannah, Georgia
• Education: VA female institution, Edgehill School
• Occupation: Philanthropist
• Age Started: 57 years old 

Juliette Gordon Low's husband, William Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts inspired her to create the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.

Entrepreneur as innovator

• Turns new inventions, into goods or services that people want
• She took the skill of baking cookies into a business

Entrepreneur as risk taker

• Takes risk of starting a new businesss
• Took risk in starting a Girl Scouts
• During Women Suffrage Movement

Entrepreneur as sparkplug

• Supplies energy, drive, & enthusiasm needed to turn ideas into realities
• She successful assembled a Girl Scouts

Entrepreneur as strategist

• Supplies the vision
• Makes key decisions that set the course for business enterprises
• Taught the same skills the Boy Scouts learned
• Decided to use their abilities to bake and sell cookies

Ambition

• Highly motivated 
• Ability to see the big picture & stay focused
• Sets Goals for themselves and never stop striving to achieve
• She focused on suceesful creating a girl scouts

Self-Confidence

• Believe in themselves
• Feel certain that they can accomplish what they set out to do
• She was confident enough and believe Girl Scouts would be benefical to war

Willingness to take risks

• Thrive on hard work
• Willing to sacrifice 
• She thrive to show that girls are just as tough as the men
• She took time to teach other women skills 

Perseverance

• Don't give up
• May have setbacks or experience failure along the way
• Keeps going
• Juliette Gordon Low discovers she has breast cancer 1923 
• Continued with the Girl Scouts

Problem-Solving ability

• Ability to come up with solutions to problems
• During the war she sewed clothes for soldiers 
• Assisted nurses when people became ill

OrganizatiONal skill

• Able to manage time, resources, and people effectively and efficiently
• Became the first president of the Girl Scouts
• Helped create the first handbook for the Girl Scouts 
• Was able to pay workers to staff the national office

Ability to motivate

• Good at inspiring others
• She was able to influence 7,000 women to join the Girl Scouts
• Encouraged her girls to participate in sports and help their country

Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Gordon_LowAdd first list item here
• http://www.biography.com/people/juliette-gordon-low-20766743