Week 3 Reading Reflection

Chapter 2 in the Kuratko textbook discussed the characteristics of the entrepreneurial mind-set, which I found to be interesting. The most surprising topic of this chapter was the section that talked about the dark side of entrepreneurship. It was nice to see the balance between the good and the bad sides of entrepreneurial characteristics. Part of the book which was not clear to me, was when he mentioned that the entrepreneur develops ethical consciousness. However, he did not clarify how an entrepreneur can go about developing the right ethical consciousness for business. The two questions that I have for the author is “What are the best ways to cope with entrepreneurial stress?” and “How to recover from the consequences of ethical rationalizations?”  I’d ask these questions because I want to know how to resolve the problem once they have already occurred. I disagree with the author when he said that ethical consciousness is the responsibility of the entrepreneur. I believe it is the responsibility of everyone who works under the business.