Change Management
MBA 802 ENTREPRENEURSHIP
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1
You are required to visit an entrepreneur of your choice and conduct the following interview.
Introduction.
This interview will be about ...... Who is a Pharmacist based in Bulawayo and now runs his own phamarcy .
Step 2
Would you tell me about yourself before you started you first venture?
Q. Who else did you know while you were growing up who started or owned a business, how did this influence you? Anyone latter when you were 21 years old?
A. I grew up in the early 80’s and people who owned businesses were very few. Q. Were your parents, relatives or close friends entrepreneurial? How? A. My mother was an entrepreneur, she wasn’t employed but was a cross border cum business woman. Q. Did you have role models?
A. Yes I did, I was motivated by Philip Chiyangwa and he was my role model, though I was in a different line of business altogether. Q. What was education level? Was it helpful? In what specific ways?
A. I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Zimbabwe and my EMBA at NUST University. My background in pharmacy helped set a foundation but my studies in EMBA played a n pivotal role in my pursue of being an employer . Q. Did you have a business or self-employment in your youth? A. No I didn’t. Q. Did you have any sales experience? How important was it or lack of it, to starting your company? A. I did not have much experience in sales.as my previous job was mostly majored on ordering medical supplies, medication, consultancy and sales was not really of any concern to me. However when starting the company knowledge of sales and how to run the whole company was of great importance and lack of it was affecting productivity hence my decision to join the Executive MBA class from NUST so as to gain an appreciation of all key aspects.
Q. When, under what circumstances, and from whom did you become interested in entrepreneurship and learn some
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1
You are required to visit an entrepreneur of your choice and conduct the following interview.
Introduction.
This interview will be about ...... Who is a Pharmacist based in Bulawayo and now runs his own phamarcy .
Step 2
Would you tell me about yourself before you started you first venture?
Q. Who else did you know while you were growing up who started or owned a business, how did this influence you? Anyone latter when you were 21 years old?
A. I grew up in the early 80’s and people who owned businesses were very few. Q. Were your parents, relatives or close friends entrepreneurial? How? A. My mother was an entrepreneur, she wasn’t employed but was a cross border cum business woman. Q. Did you have role models?
A. Yes I did, I was motivated by Philip Chiyangwa and he was my role model, though I was in a different line of business altogether. Q. What was education level? Was it helpful? In what specific ways?
A. I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Zimbabwe and my EMBA at NUST University. My background in pharmacy helped set a foundation but my studies in EMBA played a n pivotal role in my pursue of being an employer . Q. Did you have a business or self-employment in your youth? A. No I didn’t. Q. Did you have any sales experience? How important was it or lack of it, to starting your company? A. I did not have much experience in sales.as my previous job was mostly majored on ordering medical supplies, medication, consultancy and sales was not really of any concern to me. However when starting the company knowledge of sales and how to run the whole company was of great importance and lack of it was affecting productivity hence my decision to join the Executive MBA class from NUST so as to gain an appreciation of all key aspects.
Q. When, under what circumstances, and from whom did you become interested in entrepreneurship and learn some