Leadership and Entrepreneurship

By Matt Reed. I’ve been at the NACCE (National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship) conference in Charlotte, North Carolina for the last couple of days.  It has been a remarkable and remarkably packed set of discussions, but I’ve been particularly struck by what I see as two different ideas of what “leadership” means in the context of making community colleges more entrepreneurial. To be fair, both “leadership” and “entrepreneurial” are subject to different definitions.  For now, I’ll just define the latter as “taking initiative” and call it good.  That could mean revenue-generating enterprises, or it could mean improving the quality of things that colleges already do. Read more...