Entrepreneurial Management (SG2) Flashcards
An intense positive feeling the entrepreneur has toward the business or even the idea behind the business. It comes from being actively involved in moving the business forward.
Passion
Best thought of as a type of learned optimism, the ability to stick with some activity even when it takes a long time, and when a successful or unsuccessful outcome is not immediately known.
Perseverance
Intent on maximizing gains, which gives us a bias toward pursuing opportunities likely to lead to those gains
Promotion focus
Intent on minimizing losses, with a bias toward inaction or protective action. Being a successful entrepreneur involves balancing the two focuses.
Prevention focus
Take a long-term view, develop long-range plans for all aspects of the business, are comfortable with planning, and act based on the plans they’ve developed.
Comprehensive planners
Plan around the most important aspect of the business first, act on it, and then consider if additional plans are needed. It is not a very long-term approach to planning.
Critical-point planners
Generally start with a goal and look for opportunities to achieve it. Once they find a good opportunity, even if it isn’t the one related to their original goal, they act on it, so it is very short term in orientation.
Opportunistic planners
completely passive, waiting for cues from the environment to determine what actions to take. Their focus is entirely short term, and there is little in the way of goals driving their efforts. They can make the most of a situation because there is no other plan competing for their attention
Reactive planners
Do not really plan at all because their actions are dictated by their routines. They do today what they did yesterday. They don’t plan, and they don’t even tend to react to changes in their environments
Habit-based planners
One hallmark of successful entrepreneurs is that they usually do at least one thing much better than average.
Professionalization
That average is called a __ and every industry has them. Doing that level or better is what professionalization is all about.
Standard business practice
Three levels of professionalization?
Expert business professionalization
Specialized business professionalization
Minimalized business professionalization
When most aspects of the business meet or exceed the industry’s standards
Expert business professionalization
When one or two aspects of the business are at this level
Specialized business professionalization
When none of the aspects of the business achieve the industry standard.
Minimalized business professionalization