The Business Plan: A foundation for success; What an Entrepreneur Is; and Characteristics of Entrepreneurs
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Picture of reception area for company with logo in background
Tammy: Welcome again to Contemporary Business.
This week I will be meeting with Cliff Walters, the President of Walters Aeroworks. Among the topics we will talk about are:
The Business Plan being a foundation for success;
What an Entrepreneur Is;
And certain characteristics of Entrepreneurs.
Let’s now go visit Cliff to see what we can learn that will help us make recommendations regarding the strategic direction for the company going forward.
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Office of Cliff Walters, Company President (silver-haired tall gentleman in his early 60s) Office should be a large executive’s office with fine furniture; Cliff and Tammy should be sitting in a seating area off to the side from his desk
Tammy: Good morning, Cliff! Thank you for taking the time to speak with me this morning regarding Walters Aeroworks and your vision for this organization. I know that you have put a lot of yourself into this business, and if you would, could you please share the reason why you started this business?
Cliff Walters: Tammy thanks for being here. I’ve heard some wonderful things about you.
To answer your question, I started this company fifteen years ago with four friends that shared a love of flying. We all had our own planes at the same airport; we also loved the idea of building our own planes based on World War I and World War II designs. We would often meet in one of the hangars to talk about how we could make the parts that we all needed for our aircrafts. Based on those conversations, we came to the reality that the only way this was going to happen was if we got our resources together and started to manufacture the parts ourselves. This is how Walters Aeroworks got started.
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