Speaker Cameron Herold says that schools should teach kids to be entrepreneurs instead of doctors and lawyers.  Lawyers who start their own firms have the best of both worlds.

I do agree with Cameron that MBA programs don’t teach entrepreneurship.  Being a business person cannot be taught through a Masters degree.  It takes something else – the x-factor as Simon Cowell says.

Definition of entrepreneur: ‘a person who organizes, operates and assumes the risk for a business venture’