In a recent post about entrepreneurship education, Gary Schoeniger, chief content development officer at the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative, argued that entrepreneurship isn’t really about acquiring business skills such as spreadsheets and marketing plans. Instead, entrepreneurship is the way someone thinks.
Business skills, Schoeniger continued, somewhat controversially, may, in fact, get in the way of entrepreneurial thinking. Teaching business plans and financial projections “may be doing more harm than good.