GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Heather Reisman, Pizza Pizza, Frank Stronach

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Deborah De Lange

Document Summary

Chapter 5 entrepreneurship and small business management. Entrepreneurship risk taking behaviour that results in new opportuniies. Ryerson is the irm canadian ashoka changemaker campus. Remember to open your johari window by increasing your self-awareness: see pg 160-162 and ind out how you score as internally or externally oriented in entrepreneurial aciviies. Entrepreneur a risk-taking individual who takes acion to pursue opportuniies in situaions others fail to recognize, or may even view as problems or threats. Successful entrepreneurs: richard branson, frank stronach, heather reisman, ron joyce, brian scudamore. Childhood experiences and family environment: parents who were entrepreneurs or self-employed, families that encourage responsibility, iniiaive, and independence. Career or work history: try more than one business venture, prior career or personal experience in the business area or industry. Windows of career opportunity: start businesses between the ages or 22 and 45; but age is no barrier.