Please introduce yourself as an entrepreneur. Describe your field of interest and your product or service. If you are not sure about your entrepreneurship characteristics and areas for improvements, please do this weeks assignment first. A minimum of 150 words is required as your DF submission. ** Use Name – Ivan Belle. Field of Interest Entrepreneurship. You can chose the product or serves you want to use **
This question is based on this unit and your own reflections. You are asked to introduce yourself as an entrepreneur. Imagine that you are featured in one of entrepreneurs newspaper or magazine. Write up your profile as an entrepreneur featured there. You may insert your picture in your text if you wish to do so. It could be serious or funny. Preferably it should show you in any type of action related to what you do best.
Please substantiate your presentationuse examples and explain. Also note that in your submission you must indicate at least one specific product (real or imagined) that you would like to develop during the duration of this course. You need to decide on what you would want to develop. Will it be a service? A product?
Please ensure that you describe your entrepreneurship qualities first as this will allow you to have a solid starting point and will afford you a bit more time to come up with the product line-if needed. Should you want to change your product in the future units, you may do so after discussing it with your professor. This product will accompany you throughout this course so choose wisely. Should you choose to change the product (or service) in the future, you will have to explain the reason for the subsequent change and obtain your professors authorization.
Reading Assignment
“Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.” Author: Lao Tzu
Now, going back to the very beginning of this course while using metaphors please finish the following statement, but use different words and imagerynot simply a copy the opening quote:
To me entrepreneurship is.(fill in the blanks with a description of a pictureeven water if now you are still struggling with coming up with something original..).
To get a more formal definition of entrepreneurship, please visit:
What does entrepreneurship mean to you? Can you recall stories from your childhood, adolescence or adulthood when you showed any entrepreneurship inclinations? Any memories of situations when you saw a need and responded to it while creating a sustainable outcome for others. What are the entrepreneurship inclinations you ask? Lets find out.
Please take a few minutes to go back in your personal history and think of all the possible moments when you invented something or run-managed something so that it made a lasting, positive change. Now imagine yourself featured as an entrepreneur in a magazine. Your smiling face with a title of your invention-business right underneath..
READING ASSIGNMENT:
1. To read more about the history of leadership as well as familiarize yourself with leadership approaches and styles, please visit: A Framework for Addressing and Measuring Entrepreneurship by Nadim Ahmad and Anders Hoffman pages 1-12 only – available to download .
2. To read about the issues surrounding the developmental growth of an exemplary entrepreneur, please visit: – Please read the Introduction and the first two chapters of My Life and Work by Henry Ford
While reading please work closely with your Learning Journal and write down your thoughts and self-discoveries. Moreover, note in your Learning Journal the qualities exhibited by Henry Ford as well as your personal comments pertaining to entrepreneurship as a notion. How are you and your circumstances different and similar to Fords? What have you learned from his lessons?
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