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 ...

Response To This Weeks Reading In writing my report of “A Field Guide for the Hero’s Journey” I had to edit out an additional principle I wished to cover for the sake of brevity. This specific principle I feel its unwise to neglect. In the book, Rev. Robert Sirico describes the “dragon” in everyone’s life.   While this isn’t a literal dragon, the term is used to represent our great foe or challenge we must face. Like a prince in a fairytale, we have to slay our dragon. Throughout the book, I enjoyed the use of symbolism and narratives to explain sometimes very complex principles. This is no exception. I spent some time trying to determine my great foe in life, the challenger that keeps rearing its ugly head when I try to fun away. It took a while to identify it, but now the words of this chapter have such a stronger meaning to me. I can directly relate my experience to that told in “A Field Guide for the Hero’s Journey”.   I have yet to pursue many business v...

Response To This Weeks Reading A physical work environment, as well as a company culture, can serve as a catalyst for productivity, creativity, and ingenuity. This week I watched the video License to Pursue Dreams . In it, Marissa Mayer details the effort Google has made to induce passion and momentum in their employees. Employees’ are allotted total control over 20% of their work week, the ability to work on anything they see fit. Data provided shows that incentives and liberties such as these have measurable positive outcomes. This topic got me thinking of workspaces and policies that are indicative of such efforts. Google has taken great efforts to increase morale; to get their employees to love their jobs. I mean, look at their office! There should be moderation in all things, however. Making your office into a jungle gym may be cool, but is it too much? According to Jeremy Myerson extreme efforts to boost morale and create a fun work environment can be ...