Essays on Enterprising

I found the readings on entrepreneurship that we completed over a period of 12 weeks to be quite insightful. The readings focused on several aspects of entrepreneurship: what is meant by an entrepreneur, what are the characteristics common to entrepreneurs, how a business idea can be developed, the importance of a business plan and the components of it, why financial considerations are paramount and why sources of capital must be managed carefully, why and how to apply growth strategies, how to create entrepreneurs even when the company has grown into a large corporation, the avenues for social entrepreneurship, why ...

The Central Intelligence Agency was established courtesy of the National Security Act in 1947. The agency has by large retained its structure and form until the recent changes introduced in 2004 courtesy of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. However, by and large, the agency has often remained with one primary mandate. This entails the collection of intelligence for the consumption of policymakers in the United States of America. This role calls for a higher threshold of ethics and moral conduct given the sensitivity of the function in question. It is imperative to appreciate the fact that intelligence forms ...

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Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, current chairperson of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), is a renowned investor and entrepreneur listed among the richest people in the world as by statistics released by Forbes. Publications of the year 2011 reveal his net worth to be approximately 19.6 billion US Dollars, making him the 26th richest individual globally. He built his immense fortunes through his participative trade in stock markets and real estate (Choron & Choron, 2011). Dubbed by Time Magazine as “The Arabian Warren Buffett”, Talal’s career in entrepreneurship commenced after graduating from Menlo. Talal’s first entrepreneurial step was the purchase of ...

Engineering technology as a major is totally aligned with the interest, values and support of the enterprising occupations. The enterprising occupations demand high level of professionalism and determination in order to develop and maintain expertise in the field and so is the case with the student’s personality. The personality reflected in the feedback is clearly of professional in nature which depicts that the enterprise occupations are the best choice in order to pursue career in engineering technology. Considering the answers given in the feedback, most of these are in a well structured manner describing a personality with clear vision. Such synchronized ...

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Enterprising is a venture that involves resilience and determination. It is an endeavor that requires strategy and firm judgments that have to be supported by logic and finances (J. Gregory Dees, 2002, p. 32). In the corporate world of the United States, it has always been a challenge for companies to stay untarnished in the highly competitive battle for superiority. Large businesses these days try their best to stay afloat despite the threatening resurfacing of the recession which can happen at any given time (Frank Smets, 2007, p. 69). However difficult it may be to stay afloat in the corporate world, ...

Compare “Gould’s Book of Fish” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

Introduction Have you ever heard about “Gould’s Book of Fish” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”? Recently I read these two books. “Gould’s Book of Fish” is a novel written by Richard Flanagan and narrates the story of a 19th century conman and thief named Gould.“ One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a novel written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It tells the history of a small town in South America namely Macondo as well as that of its founders. They both write the juxtaposed identities of various characters in “Gould’s Book of Fish” and personalities in “One Hundred ...

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Benjamin Franklin is arguably one of the most alluded to individuals by today’s scholars and philosophers. He is a source of inspiration to many people through his literary work, his life as an inventor, politician, a printer and a scientist. It is not fallacious that Benjamin Franklin paved and shone the light for today’s crop of scientists. Yet in his grandeur and spectacular, he believed in very basic ideals. As will be espoused in the paper, he believed in virtue to civic duty and personal life, personal conduct and learning how to read and write. While some of his beliefs ...

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David is an enterprising person who should be given an opportunity to carry out his business operations with minimal interference. Just like any other entrepreneur, his rights should be fully protected and safeguarded by the law. This is the only way through which he can be motivated to continue dealing with his products. Likewise, all the other players in this industry should be protected as well. As we all understand, film is a very sensitive industry that requires a lot of support from the government. This can not only be done through offering financial support and also through enforcing just laws ...

Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Steve Jobs

Nagji and Tuff (2012) define innovation as a “novel creation that produces value”. Innovation is the process of improving upon a product, service idea or a technology that has been invented, so as to make it readily available in the market. Innovation is significantly different from the word invention. Whereas the word invention refers to the creation of a new idea, product or a technology, Innovation is the process which is aimed at making it better so as to have more practical applications to it in the marketplace.

For innovation to reach the desired audience, in terms of a novel product, service or technology, it ...