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

by Larry Farrell

April 2018

Beginner

304 pages

7h 46m

English

McGraw-Hill

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Junior Achievement: An Idea Too Good to FailDriving the Entrepreneurial BoomGreat Myths and Simple TruthsThe Life Cycle of All OrganizationsThe Entrepreneurial Attitude—What It IsJA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Brian Sidorsky, Serial Entrepreneur (Canada)• Shaikha Hessa Al Khalifa, Founder and Executive Director, INJAZ (Bahrain)• Michel De Wolf, Dean, Louvain School of Management, JA Worldwide Board of Directors (Belgium)
Creating an Entrepreneurial Strategy and CultureThe “What” and the “How” of the MissionCreating Entrepreneurial Business Plans à la MatsushitaWhat’s in the “What” of the BusinessPicking Product/Market WinnersCreating Entrepreneurial Business Values à la WatsonKeeping Them AliveJA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Steve Case, Founder, America Online (USA)• Monica Rivera, Founder, Madersolda (Colombia)• Sergey Borisov, Founder, Apps4All (Russia)• Titus Mboko, Founder, Grain Solutions (Zimbabwe)• Munjal Shah, Founder, Health IQ (USA)
My Customer, My Product, My Self-RespectThe Real Magic of Disney“Loving” Customers and Products“Loving” the Customer“Loving” the ProductGrowing the Old-Fashioned WayJA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Karoli Hindriks, Founder, Jobbatical, JA Europe Board of Directors (Estonia)• Edward Lee, Founder, COL Financial, JA Asia-Pacific Board of Directors (Philippines)• Fernando Tamayo, Founder, Yaqua /Fighter Club (Peru)• Tang Keng Hong, Founder, ImageFarm (Malaysia)• Lars Johansen, Founder, Unicus SA (Sweden/Norway)

The Necessity to Invent, the Freedom to ActThe Two Golden Rules of High-Speed InnovationThe Necessity to InventThe Freedom to ActChanging the World with a Good IdeaJA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Sanjay Gupta, CNN Medical Correspondent, Associate Chief of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine (USA)• David Darmanin, Founder, Hotjar (Malta)• Eleonora Arifova, Founder, Fun Chulan Children’s Art Studios Network (Russia)• Bill Herp, Founder, Linear Air (USA)• Eric Chen, Founder, Vitargent Biotechnology (Hong Kong/China)
Love What You Do and Get Very Good at Doing ItHigh Commitment and High PerformanceCreating Entrepreneurial Commitment: “I Love What I Do”Creating Entrepreneurial Performance: “I’m Good at Doing It”99The Almighty Power of ConsequencesSelf-Inspiration: Good for the Business, Good for the SoulJA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Donna Shalala, President, Clinton Foundation, former President, University of Miami, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (USA)• Ben Towers, Founder, Towers Design (United Kingdom)• Adedayo Fashanu, Journalist/Writer (Nigeria)• Bisman Deu, Founder, Green Wood / Color the World Pink (India)• Alfred Bright, Artist and Professor Emeritus, Youngstown University (USA)
The Three RequirementsA Bit of MoneyA Bit of KnowledgeAn Entrepreneur-Friendly CultureJA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Kim Kaupe, Cofounder, ZinePak (USA)• Jimmy Zhou, Founder, Private Equity Fund (China)• Samer Sfeir, Cofounder, shareQ / M Social Catering (Lebanon)• Stephen Arinitwe, Founder and CEO, Aristeph Entrepreneurs Centre (Uganda)• Pedro Englert, Founder, StartSe (Brazil)
JA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Lia Zakiyyah, Deputy to the Assistant, President’s Envoy on Climate Change (Indonesia)• Joshuel Plasencia, Cofounder, Project 99 (USA)• Cosmin Malureanu, Founder and CEO, Ascendia SA (Romania)• Jens Welin, Executive VP and Managing Director, Starcom USA, JA Chicago Board of Directors (Sweden)
JA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Mark Hamister, Founder, Hamister Group, LLC (USA)• Daneil Cheung, Social Enterpriser and Activist (Hong Kong)• Leen Abu Baker, Vice President, INJAZ Al-Arab Alumni Board (Palestine)• Nyi Mas Gianti Bingah Erbiana, Chief Legal Counsel, Mitsubishi (Indonesia)• Tunji Eleso, Cofounder, Growth Capital (Nigeria)
JA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Bonnie Chiu, Founder, Lensational (Hong Kong)• Christophe Robilliard, Founder, Easy Taxi Peru (Peru)• Alan Tsui, Founder, Kites (Hong Kong)• Raymon Setiadi, Cofounder and CEO, Aitindo (Indonesia)• Jerome Cowans, Jamaica House Fellow, Office of the Prime Minister (Jamaica)• Claudio Rossi, Cofounder, polarlab ag (Switzerland)
JA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Bill Covaleski, Cofounder, Victory Brewing (USA)• Gcina Dlamini, Cofounder, Smiling Through Investments (Swaziland)• Chris Slater, Cofounder, Simply Business (United Kingdom)• Max Tang, Real Estate Developer (China)• Richard Chang, Venture Capitalist—U.S. and China (Canada)
JA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Yesenia Cardenas, Attorney and Partner, Bowman and Brooks (USA)• Bob Coughlin, Founder and CEO, Paycor, (USA)• Georgi Kadrev, Founder and CEO, IMAGGA (Bulgaria)• David Meltzer, Cofounder and CEO, Sports 1 Marketing (USA)
JA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Camilla Ljunggren, Founder, Pluring (Sweden)• Daniel Antwi, Founder, People Initiative Foundation (Ghana)• Boris Kolev, Cofounder, DigiMark (Bulgaria)• Alex Kyalo, Founder, Tapifare Kenya (Kenya)• Benjamin Kainz, Founder, Young Care (Sweden)
JA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• Wise Banda, Founder, Primelink (Zambia)• Jim Hemak, Founder, Webincs, Inc. (USA)• David Mata, Founder, Pynk Systems (Ergon Desk) (Spain)• Mario A. Escutia, Founder, The Barber’s Spa (Mexico)• Joseph Fortuno, Internship Director, Gladeo and University Student (USA)• Youmn Mahzoul, INJAZ Alumni Ambassador (Morocco)
JA ALUMNI INTERVIEWS• David Lammy, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom (United Kingdom)• Feyzi Fatehi, Founder and CEO, Corent Technology (USA)• Leo Martellotto, President, JA Americas Region (Argentina)• Jeff Hansberry, President, Advantage Solution / JA USA Board of Directors (USA)• Cecilia Nykvist, CEO, JA Sweden (Sweden)• Jack Kosakowski, President and CEO, JA USA (USA)
APPLICATION 1 | You’re An Entrepreneur! What Next?APPLICATION 2 | Creating Entrepreneurial Business PlansAPPLICATION 3 | Picking Market/Product WinnersAPPLICATION 4 | It’s Start-Up Time!APPLICATION 5 | Creating Entrepreneurial Business ValuesAPPLICATION 6 | Keeping Them AliveAPPLICATION 7 | “Loving” Customers and ProductsAPPLICATION 8 | Growing the Old-Fashioned WayAPPLICATION 9 | Creating High-Speed InnovationAPPLICATION 10 | Self-Inspired Behavior—Raising Commitment and PerformanceAPPLICATION 11 | The Almighty Power of ConsequencesAPPLICATION 12 | What’s Really Required? The Three RequirementsAPPLICATION 13 | My “Getting Entrepreneurial” Start-Up Action Plan

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