Assignment 1: Entrepreneurial Leadership

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Running head: Entrepreneurial Assignment 1: Entrepreneurial Leadership Contemporary Business – BUS 508 1. Analyze and describe the founding leader(s), leadership style, and major business principles of a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. An entrepreneur is a risk taker in the private enterprise system, a person who seeks a profitable opportunity and takes the necessary risks to set up and operate a business (Kurtz, 2010, Pg. 182). As an entrepreneur, the first step to establishing a business is to identify a market for a particular product or service. Then, it is important to analyze the stability of the market as well as the sustainability of the demand within the market for the particular product or service. Once all market research has been completed, an entrepreneur will have a clear overview of the opportunity to present to any potential investors or other potential sources of capital. As the founding leader, everything starts from the top with regards to the performance of an entrepreneur’s business. The leadership style of the owner can directly affect the dynamics of the management-employee relationship and therefore can directly affect the morality of the company which can often directly affect employee satisfaction. Employee satisfaction is ultimately the foundation of how employees perform daily assignments as well how employees handle adversity in the field or how employees handle adversity when working directly with customers. Employees are an extension of management and management is an extension of the owner. There is no more evident example of this, then with a small business. In the large corporations, there is often an enormous gap between ownership and lower level employees. In a small business, the gap

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