For this assignment I read Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker.
- What was the general theme or argument of the book?
The book has a general theme of how innovation and entrepreneurship are fueled by failure, risk, and achievement.
- How did the book, in your opinion, connect with and enhance what you are learning in ENT 3003?
This book had many important key points that will help enhance my entrepreneur skills. This is one of the best quotes from the book, “The unexpected failure demands that you go out, look around, and listen. Failure should always be considered a symptom of an innovative opportunity, and taken seriously as such.”
- If you had to design an exercise for this class, based on the book you read, what would that exercise involve?
The book greatly discusses the risks associated with being an entrepreneur as well as how many entrepreneurs don’t know what it really means to be an entrepreneur. So the assignment would be to outline the risks associated with being an entrepreneur and your thoughts on how some of those can be avoided.
Matt,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post. I have this book sitting on my desk and am planning to read it for our third assignment. Peter Drucker is obviously one of the most respected and quoted writers/philosophers in the business world and this sounds like an interesting book for the entrepreneur. A "symptom of innovative opportunity" is an interesting description for a failure and makes you re-think what failures are.
Thanks again for your post and I look forward to reading this book myself.
Matt Iannuzzi
Matt,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post. It sounds like you learned a lot from reading this book. The class exercise you suggested sounds like something that could be feasible for most students in this class. The assignment could be incorporated to one of the last assignments in this class, where we reflect on what we have learned throughout the past few months.