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September 10, 2003
The real meaning of entrepreneurship
There is a profile of the "Future 50" in today's Tennessean that captures what the term entrepreneurship really means. Too often today entrepreneurship has become a word that is used to describe a lack of planning or impulsive decision making by managers, or worse is used as a term to protect one's own nest (as in, "leave me alone, I'm being entrepreneurial").
These 50 are the real entrepreneurs. They saw an opportunity, secured the resources, planned the business, and took the risk to launch their new ventures. Entrepreneurship, real entrepreneurship, is the engine of this economy now and into the future. The corporate era of the mid-twentieth century is over, and our future depends on educating, supporting and fostering today and tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
Posted September 10, 2003 04:00 PM
at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He consults with a variety of businesses on start-up and growth related issues, and with larger corporations on re-establishing entrepreneurial cultures within their organizations. Dr. Cornwall's current research interests include entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial ethics. He has authored or co-authored four books.
