The Business School

I recall my days in Business school and the joy and struggles that we went through. Not to mention that, that as students we had our own view of life, more so from an academic perspective. 

That being said, I did enjoy the fact that being in business also opened my mind to be see the various aspects of business opportunities. My goal then, or our goal in the class of 2005 was to be able to be meet the employee needs. We were being trained in order to fit in the employment word. 

Not that it is any bad to be employed, since after all I am still earning a paycheck, but I will never forget the Entrepreneur calls that we had. It lasted for an entire semester, and we were all show how to write a business plan, but never were we told to make one. The assumption was that since we had the knowledge- book knowledge, we had the potential to write one.

This leads me to the other question. How many entrepreneurs, went to business school? And of those that did did they all write business plans. I see the growth of many business in Kenya- Nairobi for that matter and wonder whether all the guys running those businesses did write a business plan. I will also ask my fellow alumni whether they have written any business plans or if they are even thinking of being entrepreneurs. 

I think many are the times that we (Kenya) produce more business students for employment, then we do entrepreneurs. Don't get me wrong we need some business students, to runs this great companies, but we also need this great students to ignite the desires to start business and run business.

Have i written a business plan myself, though i am talking about it. Yes, I have, though, I must say that when i first did my fist business of supplying artifacts to African Heritage in 1992, I had no idea what a business plan looked like. Is this how most of the businessman and women operate? At times I also think it is the unwritten business plan that only exist in ones head.