ETEM 1 Flashcards
- Sees entrepreneurship as a mindset and a method that needs practice and used only when the future is unpredictable and not certain.
- Recent view
Creation approach
- A set of skills that enable people to identify and make the most of opportunities, overcome and learn from setbacks, and succeed in a variety of settings.
- Enhances a student’s education by teaching them perseverance, tenacity, creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration so they can identify problems and find solutions.
Entrepreneurial Mindset
Two ways of thinking about entrepreneurship,
- Predictive approach
- Creation approach
Supported by the predictive approach.
Traditional entrepreneurship
- Considers entrepreneurship as a linear process where there are steps to do and the results are usually predictable.
- Older view
Predictive approach
Usually allows his imagination to explore, exposes his mind to a treasure of opportunities and potentials and is very innovative.
The Skill of Play
- Calls for entrepreneurs to act as to learn.
- Attempting to do something, learning from such attempts and structuring said learning when next thing similar happens.
- Making action.
The Skill of Experimentation
- Putting ones’ shoes in the shoes of others.
- It is significant in order to completely understand the reality of becoming an entrepreneur.
- Is needed when evaluating oneself in terms of the ability to be an entrepreneur.
- Placing oneself to the shoes of these entrepreneurs, said person could imagine himself being in their situation.
The Skill of Empathy
Being open-minded and letting loose one’s ability to create, discover opportunities and resolve problems.
Skill of creativity
- In order to make sense of the previously discussed skills,
- Taking time to reflect is the most vital skill of all skills.
The Skill of Reflection
It is describing what happened in terms of what took place, what was said and the people involved.
Narrative
These centers on the feelings and the management of these feelings during a certain situation.
Emotional
It focuses on one’s insights and feedbacks as well as the others in addition to how various views, needs or inclinations affected the experience.
Perceptive
It is rationalizing about skills and understanding obtained from an experience and relating what has been learned to anything heard about before.
Analytical
This concerns on what went well as well as what went bad or whether the experience was useful or not.
Evaluative
This is considering the role played in a situation, the approach applied, what could still might be done, the lessons from the experience, queries in mind and the anticipation of the possible result.
Critical
- A new company that is just starting to progress and looking for a feasible business model.
- Typically small and primarily funded and operated by a few founders or one person.
Entrepreneurship is Not Solely for Startups
- There is really no evidence to prove that entrepreneurs possess special personality qualities above others.
- Traditionally there are four recognized qualities of an entrepreneur which are being achiever, an influencer, a risk-taker and open-minded for uncertainty.
Entrepreneurs Do Not Have Exceptional Personality Qualities
- Entrepreneurship is already taught in colleges and universities worldwide.
- The linear process teach entrepreneurship as something predictable.
- Entrepreneurship requires a person to possess a set of skills.
- These skills should be improved continuously through practice so that they can be used for entrepreneurial action, not just for today but also for the future.
Entrepreneurship can be Taught Yet Entails Practice
- Entrepreneurs are really risk-takers but they normally would make calculations first prior to taking the next step.
- They usually measure every lose they are willing to take on each step of what they do.
- They take every single step as a lesson to learn and make use of said lesson on the next level.
Entrepreneurs are Not So Much Risk-Takers
- Most entrepreneurs learn their lessons from the shared experiences others had faced.
- Working in partnership not only works with the rest of the entrepreneurs but also with the target consumers, with prospective investors and with family and friends.
- Partnership usually brings about more efficiency, additional fresh ideas and produces ingenuity and innovation.
Entrepreneurs Work in Partnership More than They Compete