Jackson Entrepreneur

  7 /24/24 Entrepreneur Journal -Week Fourteen-      Lessons Learned          This semester I have learned a lot from this course. I definitely was not what I thought it would be going in. I was expecting a more practical, informational approach to the intro to entrepreneurship topic. Really I would consider this class to be more like a "believe in yourself 101". There weren't a whole lot of business terms discussed or vocabulary used however, the information given in this class was useful in a completely different way. It taps more into the feeling of being an entrepreneur by using the advice and experience of others. If I were to give one piece of advice to a group of students, I would tell them that the core of entrepreneurialism is not making money or chasing wealth. Moreover, the true nature and soul of being an entrepreneur can be found through true passion combined with a realistic vision. That is what it's truly about. The p...

 7 /20/24 Entrepreneur Journal -Week Thirteen-      Lessons Learned           Of everything in this week's study that I enjoyed, there was one aspect that I felt really stood out for me. I felt that the information in this video applied perfectly to me and what I have been going through this week. I am talking of the first video which describes the most common pathway that leads to success. The author describes first how he thought that most successful people would get their start in investment banking or as an entrepreneurs. However, he describes how, through research, he discovered that the most effective path was to get your start in the C suite of a large company and take that knowledge to your next company. He stated that this was the most common and effective path to success in the group of people that he studied. Although you can gain a lot of value in other pathways, the author stated that this was the best. This surprised m...

  7 /12/24 Entrepreneur Journal -Week Twelve-      Lessons Learned           In the text this week we read about the values of virtue and integrity and how they can positively or negatively affect an economy. The author Charles Handy argues that these values are important because business is a system that relies on trust. To a certain fundamental degree, the business world would not function as intended if the values of virtue and integrity didn't exist. Elder D. Todd Christopherson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles gave a great talk on this subject titled "Sustainable Societies". In it, he argued that an economy or community is not held together by its laws only but instead by the integrity of the general public. He stated that laws are a desperate last resort to control an uncivilized people. We also read more of this in the book of Mosiah in the Book of Mormon. In it, King Benjamin explains to his people how they eradicated cr...

    7 /3/24 Entrepreneur Journal -Week Eleven-      Lessons Learned      Probably my favorite part of the material this week was the mini cases. I like the way that they made me think. Both  of the short stories provided pose a similar scenario to the reader. The short stories talk about a hypothetical situation in which the reader is forced to choose between his career or his family. The details differ, but the overall message is the same. The stories pose the question, what would you do? how would you react? I really like these kinds of questions because they force you to think. Although the chance of a similar situation happening is very low, these types of questions are still useful because when we can think about something beforehand, even hypothetically, we prepare ourselves for future events and scenarios. I appreciated how these questions forced me to think a little bit deeper and really put myself in the scenario to see how I wo...