The Entrepreneurial Attitude: Lessons From Junior Achievement's 100 Years Of Developing Young Entrepreneurs

CHAPTER 7

Leadership and Responsibility

Taking Ownership of a Project, Group, or Task

Mark Hamister

Founder, Hamister Group, LLC, JA Alumnus, New York, USA

I can honestly say, the JA program got me more excited, and more motivated, and more driven, than anything I had done in my life up to that point.

My JA Experience:

“I’d like to say that I joined JA as a 14-year-old because I had the wisdom, the courage, and the foresight to know it would be the way to launch my entrepreneurial spirit. But I can’t say any of that, because it was my parents’ ...