Entrepreneurialism: chemistry or destiny

Internet startup guru Bo Peabody once observed, "One does not decide to be an entrepreneur. One is an entrepreneur. Those who decide to be entrepreneurs are making the first in a long line of bad decisions."

In a recent article in Strategy+Business magazine (http://www.strategy-business.com/) Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer (issue 42, p. 1) write that others take the opposite view from Mr. Peabody. In 1996, Lloyd Shefsky, a clinical professor of entrepreneurship at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, studied more than 200 entrepreneurs and concluded that the most successful among them were made, not born.

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