Why managers can be entrepreneurs, too: Nature versus nurture

The idea that certain skills or values cannot be taught is expressed frequently in many areas of life. Can creative writing be taught, for example, or is the talent so innate that it is impervious to formal education? Can democracy be imposed? One big issue surrounding post‐war Iraq is whether democracy is viable in a country and part of the world with no experience of or even apparent taste for such ideals. The question of whether managers can learn to act and think like entrepreneurs is surely an extension of the same way of thinking.