During today's moving service for Bill Schulte we heard an excerpt from one of his podcasts that shook us to the core. Here it is transcribed.
"I grew up in New Orleans. My familys been there for almost 200 years. Hurricane Karina had a very powerful impact on me. It affected my family, and it affected my research.
My cousin Danny lost everything he ownedand he had just paid off his house. My college roommate Mike drowned in that nursing home in St. Bernard. So since the summer of 2006 Ive been writing about the impact of Katrina on entrepreneurship and leadership and everywhere I go, my colleagues ask me: Bill, I can understand the war in Iraqits about politics, geopolitical strategybut can you explain Katrina to me?"
Well here it is years later, and Im still trying to figure it out. I guess no one had any idea that a storm might come. And surely our government officials would be fully prepared in case of an event like Hurricane Katrina.
All I really know is that it affected my life. So, how did it affect you? And the question I have is, does leadership really matter anyway? Of course bad leadership wont kill people will it."
As Norris said, a friend is gone but he'll never be forgotten.
Giles Jackson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor &
Director of Internships
Byrd School of Business
Shenandoah University
www.su.edu
Mobile: 202.257.4854
Fax: 540.665.5437
A friend is gone but he'll never be forgotten. After a long illness,
Bayou Bill Schulte left us this weekend in his sleep. For those of you
who knew him... what a force of nature. Despite his self-deprecating
nature, he mattered. For those who didn't know him, you missed a
scholar & educator who was the most complex, yet the most transparent
as well. Anyone who could make me dig out my trumpet, well, the next
time you hear some dixieland jazz.. think of Bill.
My first real meeting with Bill was of course a social function. I was
wearing a duster & sunglasses & this crazy guy yelled "Neo!" at me. I
yelled back "Morpheus!" and it was game on. Bob D'Intino, Dianne Welsh
& others of us immediately tried to recruit him to get involved with
social entrepreneurship Bill's family has been in New Orleans' Ninth
Ward only since 1810... so Katrina galvanized him. Post-Katrina, Bill
went from thoughtful skeptic to enthusiastic evangelist for the power
of social entrepreneurship.
He shared the same passion that we all do - that intense intellectual
curiosity need not conflict with practical application to help
entrepreneurs and our students. He was a 'big tent' kind of guy, one
who wanted to get as many people involved as possible. (I remember one
workshop where he sold the Academy on 23 participants for a 75-minute
session.. and made it work.)
In talking with mutual friends, the same thought keeps arising -- we
had much more to do. I guess it's up to each of us to "entrepreneur
up" and honor his memory through action... passionate, thoughtful
action.
Somewhere, Bill is hollering at us to keep pushing the envelope - to
keep finding ways to make a difference. (And, somewhere Bill is also
hollering "Laissez les bon temps roulez" - Embrace life with purpose
but also embrace life with joy.) Dammit, I miss you Bill. But I'm
still taking the red pill.
So what are YOUR Bill Schulte stories/memories? Be sure to cc his wife
Nancy <
nschulte@su.edu>
Neo, er, Norris
(these links are to his faculty page and to his Facebook page
where more information is available)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=806383045&ref=ts
http://www1.su.edu/cf/faculty/_faculty_profiles1.cfm?uid=wschulte (Here's a recent bio on Bill)
William D. Schulte, Jr. Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Harry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business of Shenandoah University
Sam Walton Free Enterprise Fellow (SIFE Advisor)
Director, Center for Economic Education
Founding Research Professor, Institute for Knowledge and Innovation,
The George Washington University
Dr. Schulte was a founding research professor of the Institute for
Knowledge and Innovation of The George Washington University where he
advises doctoral students in the Engineering Management program in the
School of Engineering and Applies Sciences. Schulte has previously
taught at The George Washington University, the Tobin College of
Business of St. John's University in New York and the School of
Management at George Mason University.
Bill has been recognized as an outstanding entrepreneurship educator
by his peers and students. As Director of the Small Business Institute
at GMU from 1990 to 1994, his team won two national awards including
the Showcase Award and Case of the Year award. He also received an
elevator pitch presentation grant from the Coleman/Hughes Foundation.
His research includes scores of books, chapters, articles,
proceedings, cases and presentations on entrepreneurship, innovation,
international strategy and knowledge management for journals and
conferences of international scholarly organizations including USASBE,
the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the
International Council for Small Business, the Academy of International
Business, the Southern Management Association, the Business
Association for Latin American Studies and the Decision Sciences
Institute.
His service to the academic community includes serving as a reviewer,
session chair and discussant for the Academy of Management Review, the
Journal of Small Business Management, the Academy of Management, the
ICSB and numerous academic journals and organizations. Bill is a
member of the Non-traditional Academics and Education committees of
the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Dr.
Schulte has a long tradition of providing service to international
organizations including the Council for International Exchange of
Scholars and the International Telecommunications Union. In addition,
Dr. Schulte has provided years of service to local and regional small
business and economic development organizations.
Bill received his Ph.D. in strategy and public policy with supporting
fields in entrepreneurship and global information technology from the
School of Business and Public Management of The George Washington
University. He received his Masters and Bachelors degrees from
Louisiana State University. Dr. Schulte also has professional
experience as an entrepreneur in publishing and television and film
production. He is currently forming J.H. Schulte Group, a social
venture based in New Orleans upper Ninth Ward.
and...
Just Entrepreneur It!
Norris
Norris F. Krueger, Jr., Ph.D.
Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Economics
Entrepreneurship Northwest
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academic:
www.ssrn.com/author=759776 "I criticize by creation, not by finding fault" -Cicero
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