Zawada Entrepreneurial Journal

Last Lecture Exercise I have tremendously enjoyed these past 14 weeks in B 183:08. Any college in the world can teach you the fundamental Entrepreneurship. Any “How to Get Rich” book can give you step by step instructions to profit off of your million dollar idea. However, as a student of Brigham Young University, you are blessed to receive the same temporal knowledge as the rest of the word, but also learn how God’s will for you relates to each endeavor. This course will guide you to greatness along a path of righteousness and integrity. The straight and narrow is not the easiest to follow at times; however, temporal greed is not worth the immense love of our Heavenly Father. All of our actions, including our professional endeavors should emulate the actions of Christ. The scriptures warn us about the pursuit of wealth. D&C 68:31 states Now, I, the Lord, am not well pleased with the inhabitants of Zion, for … they also seek not earnestly the riches of eternity...

Response To This Weeks Reading At the bottom of this weeks case study, there was a short little exercise I wanted to complete. It entailed rating each criterion with a personal level of importance, 1 being not at all important and a 5 being incredibly important. The activity was fun and I wanted to walk through some of my results. As for recognition of accomplishments, I rated this as a 4, which is pretty high. I personally don’t require praise for most of my work. A simple thank you is enough for me. However, I see an accomplishment as a major feat, which I think deserves some recognition. I placed “constructive feedback from supervisors” pretty high too. Most of my work experience has been taking over the responsibilities of a previous intern. As an intern, I’m very unaware of processes. Instruction or even an example to correct is incredibly important. Without it, I would keep making the same mistake. Working with intelligent people I placed at a 2. I’ve worked ...