Drucker on our Theme

In his book The Age of Discontinuity, Peter Drucker gives us management educators a powerful rationale for entrepreneurial teaching. On The New Entrepreneur he writes:

"We are again entering an era in which emphasis will be on entrepreneurship. However, it will not be an entrepreneur of a century ago, that is, the ability of a single man to organize a business he himself could run, control, embrace. It will rather be the ability to create and direct an organization for the new. We need men and women who can build a new structure of entrepreneurship on the managerial foundation laid these last eighty years. History, it has often been observed, moves in a spiral; one returns to the preceding position, or the preceding problem, but on a higher level, and by a corkscrew-like path. In this fashion we are going to return to entrepreneurship on a a path that led out for a lower level, that of the single entrepreneur, to the manager, and now back, though upward, to entreprenuership again. The businessperson will have to acquire a number of new abilities, all of them entrepreneurial in nature, but all of them to be exercised in and through managerial organization."

Are we teaching so that learners develop entreprenuerial abilities, not as a side specialization, but at the core of our lessons?