Week 3 Reading Reflection

Easily the biggest surprise out of my reading this week was reading about the dark side of entrepreneurship. In hindsight it was fairly obvious that entrepreneurship comes with a lot of risks, but I suppose I wasn't totally expecting the book to dive so deeply into it, with talking about the severe stress and ego issues that can occur. I was slightly confused on the distinction between role failure and role distortion. I get that distortion tends to be "for the firm" but by taking unethical actions they are still failing their role. If I could ask the author two questions, I'd ask them what steps do they think small business owners should take to encourage ethical and prevent unethical behavior in their companies, and also whether or not entrepreneurial persistence tends to work out or be harmful to most entrepreneurs. Nothing the author said I could particularly disagree with, it struck me as pretty cut and dry for the most part.