Week 14 Reading Reflection

I was surprised to hear about 3M’s philosophy to never kill a product. I knew that they were a company that prided themselves on innovation (and had a track record to prove it). I was initially thrown off by the fact because that mindset seemed stubborn. However, it does make sense to me that the company would encourage problem solving rather than the trashing of ideas that seemed unreachable. Aside from this, the only confusing element of the reading to was regarding corporate entrepreneurship. I didn’t get the distinction between this and traditional corporate management but I suppose that traditional methods didn’t account for intrapraneurship. I had also never heard of social entrepreneurs being referred to as civic entrepreneurs. As far as the rest of the reading is concerned, there were no surprises. I learned about environmental ethics (ecovision), corporate ethics, and managerial rationalizations in my Environental Sciences (high school), and college Criminal Justice and Management classes respectively. If I were to ask to questions to the author they would be- how can corporations best proactively deal with the threat of environmental regulation and what (not necessarily obvious) industries are most at risk of being affected. This is because the environmental crisis, if you will, has become more prevalent in everyday life including political policies. I want to know what he thinks about its future affect on business/entrepreneurship; I don’t think he was wrong about anything.