30A - Final Reflection

• The rich academic experience I had the privilege in being exposed to, placed me in a mindset of hope. I now can take action upon the visionary projects I have in mind. My dreams do not seem too out of reach now. With the assignments that were assigned, Dr. Pryor was able to bestow confidence and practicality to positively push my ideas to higher levels
• As I look back on all the assignments that were given for this course, the secret sauce assignment really made me appreciate my locus of control and the impact it has on my social environment. Its nice to see that holistic outlook on life where you can verify the impact of your accomplishments. I have always believed that there is value in setting an example for the younger generation to better our communities. 
• Another assignment that really gave me perspective to playing with the odds that one must face as an entrepreneur, is the celebrating failure assignment. I gained extensive awareness on how I was not alone as I fight the good fight in pursuing my dreams. It was interesting to relate to people that were discussing similar struggles as I was. Sometime the process can overwhelming with periods with no progression. Reading Elon Musks biography was a very insightful experience to where I was able to compare my process with a successful entrepreneur such as him.
• This course has directly induced a more refined entrepreneurial mindset in me to where expand my dormant ideas on a practical playing field. Being able to extrapolate my entrepreneurial proposal in such a short period of time proved to me the tangibility of success when work and persistence is place. 
• My recommendation for the future students who take this course to settle in for a strenuous but rewarding course that can take your ambitions to a level that can make them come true. Time organization is a key strategy to have to be successful in course.

29A - Venture Concept No. 2

• Opportunity:
• A growing trend within the millennial community is laziness and failure to be aware of instilling leadership qualities in the work force. This is growing worry for large organizations that depend on a fresh new batch on young interns that demanded to be ready to take the initiative for any task that is assigned to them. 
• My market's demographics would narrow down to all management position officers that practice any level of stewardship. These individuals are usually middle-aged and have been victimized by the lacking ability of the newer generation interns to express leadership qualities in the workforce.
• The need is for companies to feel security and trust when hiring new and young individuals to fill up entry-level and internship positions. Executives should be satisfied with my concept because of the results that the leadership course would be able to provide to the new interns.
• According to all the people I was able to interview about the issue it seems to me that millennial laziness is a real thing that is happen and taking root in the workplace. Executives are actually worried for their company's efficiency.
• The window of opportunity is definitely unclear to when it would close because the issue that my proposal addresses is more generational. 
• Innovation: 
• My proposed entrepreneurial idea will of an installation course that would be administered within the organization to bring forth competencies that would promote leadership in the workforce. This would be a requirement for interns and entry-level position officers to take during their recruitment process. I would provide the course lessons as via digitally downloadable content. The payment methods will be perpetually offered to the organizations and I would instill period rates. Proctored and instructed video live or recorded sessions would given to the interns. Tests will be given on a completed competency basis with feedback on their performance and awareness of what is being taught. I am not sure what price I would set for the courses I would have to conduct an analysis of my potential competitors that are in the business of providing education content.
•  Venture Concept: 
• I think my customers would appreciate the issue that my proposal is trying solve. This is an internal corporate dilemma that would strived to be corrected by my ventures key notions to put an end to millennial laziness. Customer satisfaction will be achieved by the successful results that would be measured by the course participants and also a post assessment by the employers to verify the validity of my proposal.
• As of now I cannot foresee any existing competitors that may sabotage the implementation of my entrepreneurial idea. However, predominant digital educational services may become aware of my idea and create their own version. This can be a forecasted threat to my venture. Companies like Pearson and McGraw Hill, with their power and experience level in administering digital educational supplements, can put the future of my proposal in jeopardy.
• For promotional purposes I will have 24/7 around the clock email and telephone customer support for any software program issues that they would encounter. We would reboot or give money back for the services is the program stops being functional. 
• My services would be available on a verified website with online step-by-step tech support. The course will be downloadable files that can be manipulated through all of the Microsoft workbook programs such as; excel, word, and powerpoint. For assessment of the coursework administered to the interns, a submission tab will be held on the website of each module to validate completion of the assignments. Each module or lesson will have video attached to it to explain the content of the assignments. I do not know how many employees I would have that is still unclear to me.
• Unfair advantage: My keen vision of the impactful potential this course has will guide my business decision for the course. I will try to address each major leadership characteristic that is necessary for successful leadership development that can better the internal operations of an organization.
• What's next: A smartphone app that incorporates all aspects that the website would provide. The phone will be easy to handle and have the fast software interaction with the students.
• For me: My aspirations for my entrepreneurial proposal is to incentivize academia to incorporate this course program initially as an elective then growing into possibly a requirement for all seniors in college. I hope to encourage the true theme of my leadership course as movement for future interns that are facing issue with presenting themselves with keen quality that would stand them out with their newly absorbed awareness of leadership in the workplace.
• Feedback:
• Interesting proposal
• Needs practical and clear objectives to supply to markets
• Response:
• I created clear and concise forecasted components that would benefit the legitimacy of the leadership course program.
• I recollected attributes from individuals I interviewed and consider them thoroughly.

28A - Your Exit Strategy

• Identify the exit strategy you plan to make. Do you intend to sell your business in the next 5 years for a large return? Do you intend to stay with the business for several decades and retire? Do you intend to protect the venture as a family business, and pass it down to your children?
• For my proposal, my exit strategy will be estimated to happen as a competitor creates an updated version the leadership course. Educational entrepreneurial endeavors are tricky that way because new ideas, especially technological ones that appeal to the students, would overtake my edge. If I cannot come up with a contingency plan to compete the newly demanded I would be forced to exit and pass the baton to others.
• Why have you selected this particular exit strategy?
• Because I instinctually derived this exit strategy for the imminent threat of succumbing under a competitive giant that has incorporated my same concept but with application attached to its version. I hope to have a strategy to where I can bounce back and be able to compete with the new providers of the courses, but if it comes to being short my exit strategy would be the best alternative.
• How do you think your exit strategy has influenced the other decisions you've made in your concept? For instance, has it influenced how you have identified an opportunity? Has it influenced your growth intentions or how you plan to acquire and use resources?
• The exit strategy did not really influence my development to my entrepreneurial proposal. With my idea being original I know that I would have started this proposal with only the individuals, which are company executives or managers, in mind as I craft each component of the leadership course. 

27A - Reading Reflection No. 3

I read Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

• What was the general theme or argument of the book?
• The general effort of Mindset was to express the dichotomy between the two proposed mindsets which are fixed mindset and growth mindset. Fixed mindset is structures by group of people feel self validation for attempt to recuperate from a failed event. People with fixed mindsets consequently think success is about proving you are smart or talented. The paranoia of being judged is also inherently attributed from people with fixed mindsets. However, people who demonstrate to have growth mindset focuses on how someone can improve themselves from within. The growth mindset is about stretching your mind to learn new things and becoming the best version of yourself.
• How did the book, in your opinion, connect with and enhance what you are learning in ENT 3003?
• Absolutely, the notion of self realization and being true to you own instinctual outlook to your entrepreneurial footprint is address both in the class and in the book. I feel like the class really helped in discovering the voice from within that exposes all that we would want to test out as business concepts. This book actually made me appreciate the act of taking this class because it made realize the process Dr. Pryor is trying to set a basis for our creative embarkment in instilling our dream concepts.
• If you had to design an exercise for this class, based on the book you read, what would that exercise involve?
• I would make the student create a writing response about their perspective is about confronting failure. The assignment would consist of asking the students for their approach to preferring a particular mindset that must be honed to practically achieve the hard to reach goals in life. I would have the students depict which mindset would be predominantly used by successful people.
• What was your biggest surprise or 'aha' moment when reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that the differed most from your expectation.
• As I got to the part in describing the differentiation between a fixed mindset and growth mindset, the definition start to relate to some of my approaches to psychologically overcoming failure. I felt that I shared a lot of attributes to the fixed mindset because I do  subconsciously feel that it is important to live up to certain social standard. However, I did realize that I execute overcoming failure with the growth mindset because evolution is one my main life themes that help self development. 

26A - Celebrating Failure

• Tell us about a time this past semester that you failed -- whether in this class, or outside of this class. Don't spare any details! It'd be even better if there was something you tried several times this semester, and failed each time. 
• A common outlook that I have been able obtain throughout my life is that failure is promotes contingency alternatives to hardships. To me, failure induces psychological evolution among people. Failing at something is part of life, it should be praised not feared. With respect to the assignment I would narrow down with incidences that were experienced during my freshmen year of college. Freshmen year of college consists of an educational pivotal phase for many people. I was recruited by a Division II liberal arts college, Cornell College. There I had to manage between being a student athlete and a proclaimed career plan to go into medical school after graduating. I failed to juggle the two and forced me to give up my football scholarship to pursue my lifelong aspirations in becoming a physician.
• Tell us what you learned from it.
• The one valuable lesson I attained was that some aspirations demand a certain high degree of focus than others. I realized that sacrificing other secondary interests to focus on prioritizing one may be the only efficient strategy for my personal fulfillment. It was tough at first but understanding the circumstances settled in quick because my ambitions in becoming a physician superseded anything else.
• Reflect, in general, on what you think about failure. Failure is hard, isn't it? It's embarrassing, sure, but it also means that we have to change something about ourselves. Talk about how you handle failure (emotionally, behaviorally). Finally, talk about how this class has changed your perspective on failure -- are you more likely to take a risk now than you were just a few months ago?
• Like how I elaborated on the first answer of this post, unfortunate life events naturally spur contingency. It is not wrong to take a step back from an irregular event and assess it to find out what went wrong. In relating to biological factors, we are a development species which are resulted directly from our environmental interactions. Therefore, failing and regrouping yourself is a form evolution because survival and competition drive the individuals ability to be resilient to any shortcomings.

22A - Elevator Pitch No.3

• URL:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPaTiPkLWjA
• Reflection from last Elevator Pitch:
• From the last elevator pitch I received feedback on my overwhelming use of hand movement. Also, to be less animated when it comes to addressing my pitch for the proposal. I was also advised to have someone else video tape me to promote more natural lighting. My idea was really praised and given many complements. 
• What I changed:
• I was consciously limiting my hand movement throughout this elevator pitch. I felt a lot more confident in providing the pitch. In regards to having someone record me, I did have anyone around me to satisfy the favor. I was not able to fulfill that suggestion.

23 A - Your Venture's Unfair Advantage

1. Leadership Experience: I was awarded Outstanding Volunteer of the Year at Nicklaus Children's Hospital for two departments.
• Valuable: this proves I hone the knowledge to exemplify leadership.
• Rare: There were more than 400+ volunteers in my that were eligible for the award and I was the one to receive it.
• Inimitable: This can definitely be imitable but must be decided by the individual to be expressed in practiced
• Non-substitutable: This would not be substitutable because these awards are rewarded to the individuals that participate solely as volunteers that seeking careers as healthcare providers.
2. Volunteerism: this generates the attribute of selflessness to workplace. It is not always about focusing on the return, it can also be about giving back to the community.
• Valuable: Empathy is one of the key qualities to have when working with people. 
• Rare: Not too many take part in this
• Inimitable: This can certainly be imitable through choice, it is just more less attractive because there is financial reward that compensates the labor experience.
• Non-substitutable: The notion of volunteerism is can be substitutable with other selfless endeavors such as philanthropy.
3. Connections/networked with executives: This provides me thorough insight on the landscape of the problem I want to satisfy.
• Valuable: This can give me exact flaws committed from individuals I can directly capitalize on with my proposed leadership course.
• Rare: This resource can be somewhat rare, only at the part where you have to seek the networking entities.
• Inimitable: Imitability of this resource can be accomplished by creating the initiative to go out and win the bond between influential individuals.
• Non-Substitutable: Not really because this is probably one of the main components that can push my proposal forward.
4. Acquiring empathy: having a deep connection with the individuals you are conversing with.
• Valuable: This initiates the bond because you know what person is in need off just by decoding the wait of his or hers needs.
• Rare: Yes this is very rare because currently with the social media era many individuals are set with abiding by their self interests and refrain from listening to people's demands.
• Inimitable: This is more of personal characteristic but I do speculate that empathy can be taught.
• Non-substitutable: No this resource is a must to keep a business proposal stable.
5. Shadowing Experience: The ability to be easily and accessibly mentored by an expert in their fields.
• Valuable: This creates the level of sophistication that is needed to get to a position of confidence.
• Rare: This is not very rare, shadowing, in my opinion, is very simple. Shadowing mainly consists of mimicking the individual of authority or at senior positioned individual in your career.
• Inimitable: This is definitely imitable when you want to fit in some sort of main behavior that can extend that critical attribute that can maximize comparative advantage.
• Non-substitutable: Substituting looking up a role model for personal advancement is not interchangeable because of how natural it is for this process to take place.
6. Prior work experiences: The physical labor or the hand craft working environment only experienced by actually positioning yourself in these positions.
• Valuable: This is where a leader-like individual will viscerally understand the natural everyday work environment.
• Rare: It is not rare to to find people to have this experience. What is rare to find, are the people that never attained awareness of the dynamic of physical labor.
• Inimitable: This is highly imitable for individuals that are usually trying to find an early work experience which can inspire leadership ideals.
• Non-substitutable: No this attribute cannot be interchangeable because understanding this is so important in comprehending the complexity of managing of the workforce.
7. Self accounting/bookkeeping: Keeping record of all financial exchanges between seller and buyer.
• Valuable: Effective memorabilia advantage of all financial activity is a tremendous plus for any organization
• Rare: Not much of a rare component is found but extremely important for an organization perspective.
• Inimitable: Accounting can be imitable by scholastic teaching or mentoring 
• Non-substitutable: This is very necessary to exist in any organization or entrepreneurial proposals to succeed.
8. Business owner experience: Having to be able to actually lead a proposed vision and courageously uphold an expanding company.
• Valuable: This helps people understand what it takes to run a start up organization
• Rare: The older people are the less likely this attribute is rare.
• Inimitable: This can be a lot harder to imitate but it is possible.
• Non-substitutable: This aspect is the core of all entrepreneurial quest.
9. Bilingual Spanish/English: Knowing to communicate in two languages that can build bridges.
• Valuable: The ability to connect cultures and ethnicities by appropriately communicating other people's mannerisms. 
• Rare: Depends where you are geographically.
• Inimitable: This also depends on age and the amount of exposure somebody has within a different culture.
• Non-substitutable: No, this characteristic is very essential for conversing with another ethnic business group.
10. Intimate respect: When I meet people face-to-face they usually develop respect for the bundle of leadership qualities I attain.
• Valuable: The initial presence or the first impression is so important to establishing a trustworthy network.
• Rare: Yes this is rare because it is hard to gain respect from elder officials from an organization.
• Inimitable: Very hard to imitate. I gained this aspect through my exposure with my rigorous upbringing that provided by my parents.
• Non-substitutable: It probably would not be wise to substitute this characteristic because it resembles strength and establishment of confidence. 

21A - Reading Reflection No. 2

• What was the general theme or argument of the book?
• The main theme and take-away from The Art of Social Media is the grand provision, as a source, for acquiring technological literacy. This book reiterates the importance in making people rock social media. The book stresses to provide familiarity to the readers with the basics and the ability to use social media for business. 
• How did the book, in your opinion, connect with and enhance what you are learning in ENT 3003?
• After reading and being exposed to The Art of Social Media, I have achieved greater sense and confidence to push promotional content on a social media platform, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Social Media has become the most dominant median of advertisement. From what I was able to absorb from this book, I can now navigate my user and business profiles with ease. I know how to efficiently boost my name on any of the social networks.
• If you had to design an exercise for this class, based on the book you read, what would that exercise involve?
• To form a LinkedIn user page with all of the competencies from the chapter from the book that informs all appropriate objectives that would make the ideal LinkedIn page. The objectives would include to provide a neutral avatar profile picture indicating the logo of the party, place an appropriate background picture that can consist of other elements that composes the party, and set a biography that accurately boasts your product or posting content.
• What was your biggest surprise of 'aha' moment when reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that differed most from your expectations?
• Social networking had accomplished itself as a language that must be understood to efficiently achieve successful optimization with any efforts in boosting a product. Also, a great learning method for navigating social media is through experimentation and diligence. 

20A - Growing Your Social Capital

• Domain Expert:
1. Who they are, what their background is:
1. Thalia, Head of the Patient and Guest Services at Nicklaus Children's Hospital.
2. How this person is a "domain expert":
1. She eases the hospital admission experience for patients and their parents. She uses statistics to record feedback ratings to capitalize on particular setbacks.
3. How I found and contacted this person:
1. Her husband was my middle school varsity basketball coach and he provided me with her contact information.
4. Nature of Exchange: What they did for me, what is the return expectation:
1. In giving her input on my idea in incorporating my proposed course to insight awareness of leadership, she immediately agreed with the notion. Thalia gave me an example of personnel situations where my suggested program would have saved feedback scores and even the jobs of the working participants.
5. How will including this person in your network enhance my ability to exploit an opportunity:
1. She can give me an internal perspective to the construct of leadership development that immerse from the risky environment that is naturally brought by a hospital department. Keen leadership skills, that can be effectively honed by my suggested course, are direly demanded in these settings.
• Market Expert: 
1. Who they are, what their background is:
1. Lauren is in her senior year of at the University of Florida and is employed at Blaze Pizza.
2. How this person is market expert:
1. She has a good understanding of the demanded field characteristics needed in a fast paced work environment. She can provide me the essential kinds of lacking behaviors of the current millennial workers.
3. How I found and contacted the person:
1. I met Lauren at a bar setting in Midtown. Our conversation led to the topic of incompetence that is found at workplace and suggested incentives to restore it.
4. Nature of Exchange: What they did for me, what is the return expectation:
1. I am expecting her to give me a detailed description on aspects of her work experience that could have been subject to refinement. The proposed course competencies will be directly structured from the information Lauren can add oue questionnaire. 
5. How will including them enhance my ability to exploit an opportunity:
1. Her duration of hands-on work experience will provide structure to the content of my courses.
• Industry Supplier:
1. Who they are, what their background is:
1. Leo Miyares is a senior accountant at his partnered accounting firm, GEMCO.
2. How this person is industry supplier.
1. Leo would support my proposal by including the course part of his firm. He would be the first to acquire the program.
3. How I found and contacted this person:
1. He acts as my father's primary trusted accountant. He handles a great deal of  financial strategy advice to many clients across Miami.
4. Nature of Exchange: What they did for me, what is the return expectation.
1. Leo accepted the proposal and is willing to experiment with implementing the course in his firm to strengthen the leadership attributes of interns and entry-level personnel.
5. How will including them enhance my ability to exploit an opportunity.
1. Leo's broad networking base can provide potential expansion of the program if it performs true measured results. If the course succeeds it may be able to spread to other firms.
• Finally: Reflect. This experience requires you to do a little 'targeted networking.' How will this experience shape how you participate in any future networking events? Did this experience differ from your networking experiences in the past? How? 
• The experience in going out of my way to question potential stakeholders took me out of my comfort zone. I have always contemplated about how I would approach influential actors that would benefit the success of my proposed endeavor. This experience definitely broke the seal for me to be more expressive to efficiently propose my entrepreneurial ideas.   

19A - Idea Napkin No. 2

1.    Who you are. What your talents are. What your skills and experiences are. Also: what are your aspirations? Specifically regarding your business concept, how do you see this business (if you were to start it) playing a role in your life.

o   My name is Ricardo Martinez. Middle school was when I grasped a deep interest in all that science provided. As a young boy, I invested time and thought to discovering a suitable application of science that best fits my ambitious and curious nature. Medicine was the champion of choice. Throughout my scholastic trek, teachers and mentors have frequently complemented me on my ability to think in a holistic fashion as I approach broad topics and challenges. Currently, I have immersed myself in this aspirational reality by enrolling in the University of Florida to take pre-medical requirements for medical school, volunteering in the operating room and in the pediatric intensive care unit at Nichlaus Children's Hospital, and shadowing two renowned physicians. Instead of enduring the traditional route by majoring in a science, such as biology, physics, or chemistry, I plan to graduate with a bachelor's degree in business administration. With this degree, I first plan to gain a sound financial awareness as a future physician. Secondly, incorporate the dynamics of business into the realm of medicine to hopefully better some of the financial setbacks that currently giving the healthcare industry a bad reputation. Much of my experiences, that I have mentioned, bestowed upon me a clear recognition of what leadership means in a group setting. This idea leads into the weight I will place influencing and exemplifying leadership qualities in my workforce setting. I can reinforce my self proclaimed human capital which that I am futuristic, devotion, empathetic, assertive, and grounded. 

2.    What are you offering to customers? Describe the product or service (in other words, how you'll solve customers' unmet needs). 

o   Regarding the leadership idea that I plan to put in place as I approach my professional segment of my career, does not necessarily include the typical customer. With the idea of initiating leadership courses that informs interns and entry-level position officers of the importance in the expressing appropriate leader-like qualities, I am pushing for an organizational remedial action for a trend that I see unraveling in the corporate labor market. I plan for the notion to reinforce satisfaction for the employers as they delegate to their substituents.

3.    Who are you offering it to? Describe, in as much detail as possible, the demographic and psychographic characteristics of your customers. Think especially of this question: what do your customers all have in common?

o   When placing my corresponding beneficiaries in mind, I think of top executive managers of a firm that are in need of a more deliberately expressive youthful class of employees that can promote leadership qualities in the workforce. Though, employers are in direct aid to the agenda that I am suggesting, young interns and entry-level officers can find themselves benefitting as well. By utilizing core strict leadership attributes that are fit to company or firm, new young employees can find themselves with a competitive edge. Most interns and entry-level officers are naturally hungry for promotional activity, but with having to be educated with my system, they can excel into having more probability in fulfilling the aspiration.

4.    Why do they care? Your solution is only valuable insofar as customers believe its valuable to them. Here, explain why customers will actually pay you money to use your product or service.

o   With the plan that I am stressing for organizations to put in place, monetary exchange is obviously irrelevant to the action. I would be addressing a form of adaptation to a modern trend that must be tackled by organizations. In return, I will be providing the organization that I would be working for a evolutionary edge in teaching younger generations the importance of take the initiative of being mentally present in the workplace. I would most likely be rewarded with with trust or a promotion to higher corporate management. I can also see myself implementing this concept into an organization I would be creating and owning. I feel that I would be running a more fruitful and efficient trading machine if every employee would be on board with their newly learned leadership ideals.

5.    What are your core competencies? What sets you apart from everyone else? Also: what do you have that nobody else has? 

o   I sense that my efforts to tackle a growing trend that has led to a large consensus gives my idea uniqueness and validity for consideration. The list of competencies I would be installing in the curriculum are; first, the collective impact of punctuality, secondly, the provision of understanding ones potential influence in a collective setting, and thirdly, the importance of expressing a personal opinion so groupthink does not set in. My idea is mainly a visionary goal for organizations to practice broadening their internal affairs and reestablishing a solidified young group of interns and entry-level officers that can partake in the overall progress of an organization.

• In addition to these five elements, please spend a paragraph evaluating whether you believe these elements fit together or whether there are aspects of your business concept that are weaker / out-of-joint with the others.
• This proposal is still in its infancy. As I grow in my career of medicine and establishing notoriety, I will push for this notion to be a mindset in any organization that I take part in. This proposal is primarily purposed to combat the growing trend of millennial workers that do not bring initiative to work. In my work experience, I have witnessed this unfortunate instability of the labor market and from past interviews which have made the problems more apparent. All of my five elements that I listed, fit the narrative of what I attempting to exploit. 
• Feedback Memo:
• I never received a peer review for my first Idea Napkin so I cannot really base my augmentations from feedback.
• In the section where I had described my talents and skills, I added on my five human capital that I can provide to the task at hand.  

18A - Create a Customer Avatar

      My proposal is an internal entrepreneurial advancement that can change the way interns and entry-level position officers approach expressing their demanded workplace behaviors. IThe individual that would gain mostly from this suggestion will be employers and executive leaders.
      The ideal character that would appeal to my pitch would a "Donald Trump" like figure. This an individual that has been placed at the helm of their organization for sustaining purposes. The generic CEO of a company that is fed up with lousy and lazy employee that failed to express leadership awareness. These individuals are acknowledging the social trend and are desperate for any remedial action. Theses high profile individuals would most likely take up hobbies such as golf, racket ball, and hunting. The type of cars that these people would be seen driving are Bentleys, BMWs, Rolls Royces, and Ferraris. He or she probably prefers black or red for the color of their cars. They would most likely have their own parking at the firm that work at. When traveling long distance, these people would likely rent or purchase a private airplane. They definitely have multiple children with past wedded partners. They probably hire nannies to look out for their children.
       You would most likely see these people read books such as How to Win People and Influence People, The Power of Broke, and The Art of the Deal. They would favor the political party that sympathizes with the conservative ideologies. He or she will be middle-aged.

What do I have common with him? A common characteristic I have with this individual is my hunger in leading my on organization that can withhold a common goal throughout the employed. My ambition for having an extravagant lifestyle of riches would give me emotional similarities with him. This is not a coincidence for me because I usually empathize with leaders of organizations because that have the power to innovate ways to make communities push forward.

17A - Elevator Pitch No.2

• Reflection from feedback I received in my last pitch:
• I felt that my feedback was fair in reference to being criticized by having not enough emotion in my first elevator pitch. One of the critics explained how an elevator pitch should always incorporate emotional expression to demonstrate the severity of the idea you are trying to stress to an employer or authoritative figure in an organization.
• What did you change, based on the feedback?
• In my first elevator pitch, I based the speech off of prior knowledge of the sole purpose in selling myself instead of an idea I am trying to sell. My previous elevator pitch consisted of just elaborating about my attributes and experiences. In this elevator pitch I initiated my concern about the modern trend that I have been addressing in past posts. 

16A - What's Your Secret Sauce?

• Five ways in which I think I have Human Capital:
1. Futuristic - On a personal level and on a societal level I am always envisioning what technological advances will be arising.
2. Devotion - I will always apply every unit of human energy that I have, to what I feel  holds utmost importance.
3. Empathetic - I can very easily place my thoughts in somebody else's position. This attribute allows me to connect with people in a more intimate way.
4. Assertive - I do not express anger much, but when I encounter a problem or an incorrect behavior of sorts I provide reason and logic to capitalize on the issue.
5. Grounded - When communicating with colleagues about an issue, I will express the my sincere realistic advice to countering the problem.
• Interviews:
1. Mom: She said,"You have a special presence when you walk in the room filled with people. People immediately respect you and look up to your for hope and guidance. Your bits of wisdom helps individuals to be cheered up when they're experiencing a moment of sadness.
2. Dad: He said, "Proud of the man you have become today. You exemplify what it means to be a leader in society. You give others around you hope and inspiration to fulfill their dreams. You are a role model to participants of younger generations. Any employer will be lucky to have had hired you as their highest valuable asset.
3. Sister: She said, "I seek your humbling and grounded advice to uncertainties that are experienced in my high school. With watching you take-on your endeavors, it give me support to keep pushing myself to hold the same bar you set everyday. I am extremely lucky to have a brother that can provide me the unique guidance when I am in a state of doubt.
4. Uncle: He said," It has been a genuine privilege to see you develop into an adult. Your ambitious and compassionate personality resonates onto others. Your little cousins are always showing admiration for the role model status you give them. Keep utilizing these attributes and you will see the fruit of your labor and positive personality.
5. Grandfather: In Spanish he said, "I am so lucky to have a grandson the demonstrates such tenacity for your surrounding elements. You are increasingly developing into a more wholly aware person about the world around you. You will place an impact on so many people's lives with the courage you give to your everyday challenges. The crowd needs a person like you to follow into adversity.   
• Reflection: 
• It was definitely an enriched experience learning what my family perceives of me. Their take on my attributes ran precisely parallel with my predictions. They are usually complementing me on these highlighted behaviors I gave at the top of the document. If I would make a slight change to my prediction list it would be to add leader because that is what was constantly iterated by my family. 

15A - Figuring Out Buyer Behavior No. 2

Report findings and Draw Conclusion:

In interviewing fresh new subjects for my efforts to alter the lack of leadership culture, new perspectives came to light. In proposing my suggestion of securing a legitimate educational course for young millennials, I gained alternative feedback to the initiative. When and where of the provision of administering the teaching process has evolved to more standardized and efficient approach to the trend facing the U.S. labor market. It is interesting to gain knowledge from the homogenous concentration of people that share the need for reform. Segmentation sharpens uncertainty of a product, service, or a social movement.

From my second interview, a suggestion for incorporating a business leadership course as a requirement before graduation. The interviewee stressed that the earlier somebody can acquire leadership qualities that are demanded by the employer, the better of a contender they will be when engaging in the competitive theater corporate America incentivizes. He mentioned that once an individual is at the point of seeking an internship or a entry-level position, it is too late to not have gained a grasp on what it means to have a leadership presence in the workplace.

My third interview explored the industries and groups of organizations that would specifically benefit from the movement I am proposing. This interviewee, in particular, was with a physician specializing in gastroenterology. He subtly set the perspective of the varying degree of risk faced by different industries. By him iterating his personal experiences as a medical provider, leadership should not just be focused on the corporate positions, but also in medicine and in scientific research. He claimed how big of an issue it is when a resident has excellent intellectual competencies, but lacks the initiative to present themselves as a leader in risky setting such as in intubated procedures. He has accounted many young residents that lack punctuality and assertive behavior when they are needed for an important procedure.

The provision of my leadership initiative will be measured by the segments that I have uncovered through the quality of behavior in the graduate students seeking entry-level positions. The targeted competencies will have to be met in order to satisfy employers.