Gene Luczkiw’s ideas and connections led to the formulation of Entreplexity® – his word for the complex face of entrepreneurial thought. He was contagion of curiosity who addressed his own questions and with the twist of a word or idea showed a creative dexterity that infected all those in his world. His professional and academic life cast him as a crusader for personal empowerment through teaching individuals to assume responsibility for their own life and to act in ways that were beneficial to themselves and others. He accomplished this and found ways to touch the lives of all he encountered. This volume begins with practice by chronicling the development and implementation of an Enterprise focus in a Bachelor of Education degree program. The second part of this book provides a deep and thoughtful grasp of academic and business theory grounding Gene’s approach to learning, teaching and life, in general. This work of an exceptional individual who adopted and developed entrepreneurial thought early on merits serious consideration in a changing world.
Table of Content
Foreword; Biography of Gene Luczkiw; Introduction; The Meaning of Enterprise: The Teachers’ Perspectives; A Practice in Search of my own Theory; Why a need Exists for a new Theory; Complexity Theory: A Convergent Paradigm; The Meaning of Self-Organization; A Shared Understanding of the Meaning of Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs and Enterprising People; Rationale for Teaching and Learning About Enterprise; The Bachelor of Education Program in Enterprise Education; Enterprise Studies Curriculum; Enterprise Education and Teaching Curriculum; Journey into Enterprise Curriculum; Killing the Goose that laid Golden eggs: Cancellation of the Program; Enterprise Education Survey and Results; Conclusion; Editor’s Postscript; References for Section Two; Overview; The Myth of Pleiades – Asterope’s Journey; Possibilities: The new Network Economy; Increasing Returns and Lock-in; Information-Based Technology; Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship; Product life Cycles; Characteristics of the new Network Economy; What are the Strategies?; The Twelve Themes of the new Economy; People: Transcending Evolution’s Purpose; Understanding the Workings of our Brain/Mind; How the Brain Works; The Triune Brain; The Holographic Brain; Systems Thinking: Connecting our “Self” with the External Environment; Human Beings as Living Systems; Ecosystems: Connecting Everyone and Everything in Today’s Global Village; Passion: Developing Consciousness and Creativity; Through the Looking Glass: The Paradox of Consciousness; Consciousness vs. Intelligence; Emergence of Consciousness; The Study of Consciousness; What It Means to be Conscious; Developing your Consciousness; The Self; The Outcomes of the Flow Experience; Self-Determination; The will to Meaning; The Meaning of life; The Journey Begins; Performance: The Entrepreneurial Process; Effective Strategies for Enterprise Creation and Development: The Enterprise Diamond; The Person; The Idea; The Opportunity; The Resources; Stagesof Growth; Business Development Activities: The Start-Up Or Foundation Stage; The Development Stage; The Maturity Stage; Case Study: The Apple Computer Story; The Entrepreneurial Metaphor; Entrepreneurship; Why Study Entrepreneurs?; What do we mean by Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation?; What is an Entrepreneur?; Entrepreneurial Traits & Motivation; Myths About Entrepreneurs; Structuring an Entrepreneurial Organization; Progress: Changing the Paradigm with Entreplexity®; The Science of Complexity; Characteristics of Complex Adaptive Systems; How Complex Adaptive Systems work; Findings: (1992 – 1995); Entreplexity®: A Synthesis of Complexity Sciences; Entrepreneurs and Jamming Jazz Bands; Putting the Principles of Complexity into Action; The Person as a Conscious, Complex and Adaptive System; What are the Lessons we can Learn from this Experience?; What does the Leader need to do?; What Should the Organization’s Structure look like?; So what is the Alternative?; The Jamming Jazz Band: A Metaphor for Creating Organizations with a Consciousness; Theory into Practice Exercise: Strategies for Creating Enterprises on the Edge; Creating a Compelling Vision of the Future; Core Beliefs and Values; Personal Beliefs and Values; Personal Beliefs and Values Exercise; Purpose; The Organizational Purpose; How can you Discover your Organization’s Purpose?; Mission; How to Create a Mission Statement that Works; Four Types of Mission; Putting it Together; Preparing the Vision; The Visioning Process; Engineering a Vision; Factors that Contribute to Achievement of a Compelling Vision; Creating your Future: The Enterprise Diamond Exercise; Person (People); Idea; Opportunity; Resources; Conclusions; Leveraging Learning into Success; Passion, Excitement and the new Economy; Continuing our Quest for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Memorable Meeting; The Motivator; Embedded Enterprise Education; Remembering Gene Luczkiw.
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