The book I chose to read for this reading reflection was Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker.
1) The general theme/argument of the book was describing how entrepreneurs behave throughout the process of developing their opportunity and the steps they take to make that opportunity a success. The book also discusses the different enterprises of the entrepreneurship world, their roles, and the impacts they have.
2) The book very well connected with what I am learning in this class because it discusses the practices in entrepreneurship. This relates to this course, because throughout the semester we were lectured on different practices that would enhance our ability as entrepreneurs, such as idea napkins, elevator pitches, and networking with the several interviews we had to do.
3)The exercise I would design for this book is to use the same opportunity we have been working on throughout this entire course but try to approach your opportunity with the different entrepreneurship practices that were discussed in the book. Using that, you can compare the success of your opportunity with the skills discussed in this course and the skills discussed in the book.
4) There was nothing in this book that surprised me the most but the thing that I was very interested in the most was when the author mentions when reading this book was saying that "entrepreneurial executives must make innovation and entrepreneurship “a
normal, ongoing, everyday activity, a practice in their own work and in
that of their organization". I found that this is true because I realized that new innovations and technology make a society more advance. Therefore, if we want to move forward as a society we have to try to consistently come up with things to make our everyday lives easier.
Sara,
ReplyDeleteInnovation and Entrepreneurship seems to be a perfect book for this class. The quote you chose that was interesting to you reminded me of our first or second assignment, our “Bug List”, that made us think outside the box to correlate our everyday life to become an opportunity. If entrepreneurs didn’t use something that really did relate to their lives, and they thought was interesting, then I believe they wouldn’t be successful.
Sara,
ReplyDeleteI chose a different book to read for this assignment that was a little harder to relate to this class. It's awesome that the book you chose, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is so relevant to what we are doing. For part three you mentioned that the book lists different entrepreneur techniques than what we do in class. I wonder if practices in the book would be attainable on an online platform.