What makes entrepreneurs tick? Creative knowledge, ambition, initiative, trial and error, perseverance, and more. This mini lecture is part of a new series of short, instructional lectures on entrepreneurship.
Related:
My nine-page journal essay, “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf] (Journal of Private Enterprise, 24(2), Spring 2009, 49-57. Also available at the Social Science Research Network.)
This lecture is part of the Entrepreneurship and Values series. Other lecturers in the six-part series include Terry Noel, Alexei Marcoux, William Kline, and Robert Salvino.
The video was produced by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.
Very glad to have discovered this video. Just posted on our Facebook wall http://Facebook.com/Small.Business.Chamber and any comment you’d care to make there would be very much appreciated. (Same true for anyone else reading this, hope you’ll check us out and perhaps post a comment.)
I very much like the first part of the video, but I wish you’d left off the character trait listing.
Are you familiar with Dr. Amar Bhide? When his “Origin and Evolution of New Businesses” came out it was called the most important book about entrepreneurship that was ever written by the publisher of Inc Magazine, and I believe that still holds true. http://bhide.net
The Small Business Administration and others like these kinds of character trait lists, but Dr. Bhide’s research has demonstrated they just don’t hold water. As you say at the end of the video we all have our strengths and weaknesses. All sorts of people start successful businesses.
Great. Thanks, John.