You can go to college to acquire knowledge and skills for just about any profession, from educator to engineer, teacher, accountant, geologist, and beyond. But what about the knowledge or skill to start and run a successful business?
The founder of Best Buy thinks every college should teach students the art and science of being an entrepreneur.
He writes that “teaching students to think and act as entrepreneurs does remarkable things. It motivates and energizes students, it builds their critical and creative thinking capabilities, it focuses them on the ways they can make an impact in the world, and it prepares them to enter the workforce with passion, purpose and confidence. “
He adds, “regardless of whether they start a business or not, students with entrepreneurial training are better equipped to identify and craft opportunities for themselves and their employers, to bring innovative thinking to the problems they face and to mobilize the resources they need to implement new and better solutions.”
Entrepreneurs are not actually “born,” Schulze says. The become. “Formal education isn't just about learning facts and formulas, although being exposed to a broader range of ideas and knowledge is, of course, invaluable in and of itself. The best education is one that teaches people how to think. And an entrepreneurial education demands just that.”
I think Schulze makes an important point in this column. He writes about a process of personal growth. It enables a person to make the most of what he or she encounters. Perhaps the right word might be “serendipity.”
Serendipity is defined as “an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.” And that’s no accident.
Thank you. “Players win games, but teams win championships.”
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