entrepreneur
Budget: $10 – $30 CAD
Introduction
The project is intended to help you to gain insights into how you can become more effective and
engaged with what matters most in your professional and even your personal life in order to help
you on being a successful entrepreneur.
Organizing
This is an individual project.
Request
Please read the following book:
“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey
Write 8-10 pages report with 12 font, single line spacing. Please make sure the number of
pages are only for report contents and it doesn’t include cover page, table of contents etc. Any
page missing will cause mark deduction.
The reports need to cover the following sections. The followings are some suggestions that you
could cover in each section. More important, you need to write down your thoughts after reading
the book.
[0.5 mark] Report format. Please make sure the report has professional format instead of
like Question & Answer.
[2 marks] Section 1: How to Create habits
Please discuss the difference between personality and character. Describe a paradigm shift that
you have experienced in your life. Discuss Covey’s definition of habits, including the elements
necessary for a habit to be achieved and maintained. Describe the habit that you would like to
start that you think would be reasonable over the period of time between now and midNovember?
[2 marks] Section 2: P/PC balance
Discuss how Covey define effectiveness and how this definition compare with your own
experience. Discuss the P/PC balance in your own words, and give examples of your current
university and work life that illustrate imbalance based on P/PC.
[10.5 marks] Sections 3: Habits 1-7
Discuss the 7 habits from the book in detail. Analyze yourself if you have such habits and always
use your real life examples to discuss how these habits could affect your life.
[5 marks] Section 4: Connect with being entrepreneur
Imaging if you will have your own IT related start-up, discuss if training yourself gaining these
habits will help you become a successful entrepreneur. Please list 5 most important matters that
you think if you want to succeed in your start-up. Please use data to support your conclusion, please
do research on some successful entrepreneurs or arrange an interview with a successful entrepreneur
to get the support data.
Please attach a cover/title page, with: course number, project title, your name, date of submission
for your project documents.
The project is intended to help you to gain insights into how you can become more effective and
engaged with what matters most in your professional and even your personal life in order to help
you on being a successful entrepreneur.
Organizing
This is an individual project.
Request
Please read the following book:
“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey
Write 8-10 pages report with 12 font, single line spacing. Please make sure the number of
pages are only for report contents and it doesn’t include cover page, table of contents etc. Any
page missing will cause mark deduction.
The reports need to cover the following sections. The followings are some suggestions that you
could cover in each section. More important, you need to write down your thoughts after reading
the book.
[0.5 mark] Report format. Please make sure the report has professional format instead of
like Question & Answer.
[2 marks] Section 1: How to Create habits
Please discuss the difference between personality and character. Describe a paradigm shift that
you have experienced in your life. Discuss Covey’s definition of habits, including the elements
necessary for a habit to be achieved and maintained. Describe the habit that you would like to
start that you think would be reasonable over the period of time between now and midNovember?
[2 marks] Section 2: P/PC balance
Discuss how Covey define effectiveness and how this definition compare with your own
experience. Discuss the P/PC balance in your own words, and give examples of your current
university and work life that illustrate imbalance based on P/PC.
[10.5 marks] Sections 3: Habits 1-7
Discuss the 7 habits from the book in detail. Analyze yourself if you have such habits and always
use your real life examples to discuss how these habits could affect your life.
[5 marks] Section 4: Connect with being entrepreneur
Imaging if you will have your own IT related start-up, discuss if training yourself gaining these
habits will help you become a successful entrepreneur. Please list 5 most important matters that
you think if you want to succeed in your start-up. Please use data to support your conclusion, please
do research on some successful entrepreneurs or arrange an interview with a successful entrepreneur
to get the support data.
Please attach a cover/title page, with: course number, project title, your name, date of submission
for your project documents.