(P) Lesson 2: Entrepreneurial Mind-set in Individuals (PPT based) Flashcards
The knowledge structures that people use to make assessments, judgements, or decisions involving opportunities evaluation, venture creation, and growth.
Entrep. Cognition
Refers to the unique way entrepreneurs mentally process information that helps them identify and invent new services, and to assemble the necessary resources to start and grow a business.
Entrepreneurial cognition
Cognitive adaptability is the ability to be ___, ___ and _____ in one’s cognition given dynamic and uncertain environments.
dynamic, flexible, and self-regulating
Awareness or analysis of one’s own learning or thinking process.
Metacognition
Strategies that help the entrepreneur examine their cognitive processes that have led to them to the decisions they made.
Metacognitive strategies
Cognition ame from the Latin “cognoscere”, means ___
“to know”
Introduces the idea of knowledge structures –mental models that are ordered to optimize
personal effectiveness within given situations.
Social cognition theory
Who defined this “Entrepreneurial Cognition as the knowledge structure people used in assessment, judgement or decisions involving opportunity evaluation, venture creation, and growth.”
Researcher Ronald K. Mitchell (or also Researchers Ronald K. Mitchell, Lowell
Busenitz, Theresa Lant, Patricia P. McDougall,
Eric A. Morse, and J. Brock Smith)
You need this in order to succeed, it often win against odds that many people would consider insurmountable.
Sheer determination and an unwavering
commitment (determination and perseverance)
Entrepreneurs are self-starters and appear internally driven to succeed, to excel against self-imposed standards, and to pursue and attain challenging goals.
Drive to achieve
T or F. High risks to average people are also high risks to the driven entrepreneur
F (moderate risks)
They are constantly aware of opportunities that exist in everyday life.
Entrepreneurs
They set high but attainable goals and hve the ability to ___
focus their energies
T or F. Entrepreneurs do not selectively sort out opportunities.
F
One must know how to ____ as well as measures to know how well they are performing
define their priorities
T or F. Effective entrepreneurs are quick learners.
T
T or F. Entrepreneurs are intimidated by difficult situations because they are not sure if there’s opportunity behind the conflict.
F (not intimidated)
T or F. The impossible takes a little longer to achieve.
T
T or F. Simple problems bore them; but they couldn’t care less about unsolvable ones.
T
It is being unaffected by your own environment; and you rise above difficult situations
Internal locus of control
T or F. They believe that their accomplishments and
setbacks are not within their own control and influence, and that they can affect the outcome of their actions.
F (it is within their control)