‘Togetherness, not MBAs, gets the job done for entrepreneurs’

Entrepreneurs do not do MBAs; entrepreneurship is not about getting it right, but getting it going, keynote speaker Pearse Lyons told the Cork Chamber annual dinner last night.

The founder and president of Alltech, a global animal nutrition and health innovator, told the 980 guests at Cork City Hall that entrepreneurship is about ferocious togetherness.

“It is about being agile,” said Mr Lyons. “The entrepreneurs’ world is a world of constant dissatisfaction, a world of constant reinvention.