Sunday, November 25, 2007

Entreprenuerial organizing?

The third part of our OBTC 08 theme is entrepreneurial organizing. Consider this the output of the first two. Entrepreneurial teaching opens the range of possible ways to stir entrepreneurial learning.

Once one has become acclimated to riskier (few correct answers) management learning, would not it follow that her or his notions about the core act of organizing to do business be freed from usual conventions?

What are we talking about?

To organize is to bring into existence formally: constitute, create, establish, found, institute, originate, set up, start.

Is this not what business and social entrepreneurs do? My thought is that people do this at the start of each business day - bringing back into existence the way people organized to work the day before (but always open to invention).

To organize is to arrange in an orderly manner: methodize, order, systematize, systemize.

We see managers doing this; but must they do so according to the models we have drilled into their heads? It seems to me that global realities beg for new ways of organizing to conduct business.

The call is for entrepreneurial organizing. Who is teaching so that those who learn will heed and lead this call?

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