Week 3 Reading Reflection

1.     What really stood out to me was the mentioning of how the high levels of stress brought on by the many risks entrepreneur’s take every day can negatively affect the health of entrepreneurs. It was astonishing to find out that there are many different kinds of risks that entrepreneurs are taking besides the ones for their businesses. They are risking their family and social lives, as well as psychologically putting themselves through so much stress.

2.       The whole part about ethical responsibility and that chart on page 54 was rather confusing. The chart used some terminology that was not defined or spoken of in the text, also the chart did not explain a scenario so to speak for using the chart. It was just rather vague to fully grasp the idea of ethical challenges that corporate entrepreneur’s face. Furthermore, the ethical considerations of corporate entrepreneurs mentioned how there should be a more complete training program in order to better approach organizations and its members so that the prevention of any ethical crisis may be attained. That section was vague and could use some further explanation.  

3.       I would ask the author what they mean when they mentioned entrepreneurial fear. Have they ever had it or know more about it? Could they attest to a personal experience, and possible how they got over that fear? Are there other ways to deal with the stress of it all? I want to ask these questions to the author because they were not answered in the reading, and I am rather curious to know more about this “fear” that apparently gets every entrepreneur.  

4.       I didn’t really disagree with anything said by the author’s. Instead I very much agreed with them. There are issues at hand when it comes to entrepreneurs being workaholics and not paying enough attention to their health or families. In this case there is indeed a psychological problem at hand that needs to be recognized and dealt with, but I suppose the approach spoken about in the reading could be improved. I feel as though the author could have expanded more on ways to deal with the stress that entrepreneurs face. Their so called solutions did not seem very specific or acted as a long term solution.