We are living through a particularly bad moment in history for free markets and capitalism. Government, not business, is promoted as the solution to all problems. Young people have never known any other environment, and one of the consequences is the skepticism about capitalism that they learn in school, college, and university.
Management co-ordinates and orchestrates. When it fulfills this role – and avoids commend-and-control and hierarchical architecture – it can still be a useful tool in the adaptive digital age.
Entrepreneurial businesses embrace adaptiveness and change, and continuous innovation enabled by flexible and responsive organizations, empowered at every level. That doesn’t mean there’s no role for managers.
Entrepreneurs always generate new value for customers; that’s what they get paid for. It’s not always necessary to create a new market; there are many creative ways to expand the value potential of established markets and carve out a territory in the new expanded space.
We define entrepreneurship in terms of people working creatively to make others’ lives better.
In the last century, mathematics has been the dominant language of economics, ruining the science and rendering it useless. That era is now over.