Foreword ? Diane Thompson, Chief Executive, Camelot. Introduction. 1. The Entrepreneur in Focus. 2. The Potential Entrepreneur. 3. The Proven Entrepreneur. 4. Conventional Wisdom. 5. But - What is an Entrepreneur? 6. The Spirit of the Entrepreneur. 7. The FACETS of the Entrepreneur. 8. Focus. 9. Advantage. 10. Creativity. 11. Ego. 12. Team. 13. Social. 14. Applying the FACETS. 15. Some Real Entrepreneurs. 16. Releasing the Entrepreneur. 17. Releasing the Corporate Entrepreneur. 18. What Entrepreneurs Do. 19. Airline Entrepreneurs. 20. Retail Entrepreneurs. Now it?s Your Turn

This innovative book is about identifying and releasing entrepreneurial potential. Using the idea of character themes, it defines the entrepreneur in terms of six key themes, and provides readers with the opportunity to assess themselves in these areas. This book also discusses how entrepreneurs develop, or are stifled, in society at large and within large organizations – the topic of intrapreneurship – and considers how successful entrepreneurs measure up against the six character themes identified. The authors enable readers to identify their talents so that they can be more creative, innovative and enterprising. Having read this book, readers will have a better understanding of their entrepreneurial potential. This book will be essential reading for the general professional business market, and for students of entrepreneurship and enterprise development at undergraduate, MBA and MSc levels. “FACETS (Focus, Advantage, Creativity, Ego, Team and Social) succinctly summarizes the themes of entrepreneurs that we at Gallup have been studying and discovering during this last twenty years. I believe the book will be an excellent tool for any person practicing entrepreneurship and should be a required reading for entrepreneurship study in colleges and universities.” Don Clifton, Chairman of Gallup International Research Centre, retired Chairman of Gallup Inc The range of examples used really aim the text at anyone interested in finding out about what is meant by those words – ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘being entrepreneurial’ and ‘being enterprising’. It could therefore be read by anyone thinking about going into business on their own or just trying to understand how they could be more enterprising.” Frank Martin, Director of the MSc in Entrepreneurial Studies and Director of the MBA in Entrepreneurship and Business Venturing (distance learning), University of Stirling
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This text is about identifying and releasing entrepreneurial potential. Using the idea of character themes, it defines the entrepreneur in terms of six key themes, and provides readers with the opportunity to assess themselves in these areas.
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Foreword - Diane Thompson, Chief Executive, Camelot. Introduction. 1. The Entrepreneur in Focus. 2. The Potential Entrepreneur. 3. The Proven Entrepreneur. 4. Conventional Wisdom. 5. But - What is an Entrepreneur? 6. The Spirit of the Entrepreneur. 7. The FACETS of the Entrepreneur. 8. Focus. 9. Advantage. 10. Creativity. 11. Ego. 12. Team. 13. Social. 14. Applying the FACETS. 15. Some Real Entrepreneurs. 16. Releasing the Entrepreneur. 17. Releasing the Corporate Entrepreneur. 18. What Entrepreneurs Do. 19. Airline Entrepreneurs. 20. Retail Entrepreneurs. Now its Your Turn.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781861529183
Publisert
2002-12-19
Utgiver
Cengage Learning EMEA
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
20 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
243 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Biografisk notat

John Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Huddersfield and a Visiting Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Anglia Ruskin University. He has previously been a Visiting Professor in Australia, New Zealand and Finland. He is a member of the Executive Committee of The Case Centre and works with a number of other charities. His published work spans both strategy and entrepreneurship, and in 2009 he received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion.