Gwen Cameron Individual Assignment

IA2:             I plan to meet with either Dr. Iris Grossmann or Dr. Thomas Macagno to discuss how they originally began their careers in Sustainable Technology and Business. IA3:             I plan to research more into the industry of demand-side management and renewable energy. IA4:             I plan to continue attending the Chatham University events pertaining to my interests in sustainability and business. IA5:              I personally enjoyed Dr. Thomas Macagno’s lecture, and he is also a favorite professor of mine. I will most likely write my assignment on him and his lecture.

“How to Become a C.E.O.” by Stephen J. Dubner is a Freakonomics podcast about how several highly different C.E.O.’s had come to be. There is no exact correlation between the history of all excellent C.E.O.’s that has been made. In the podcast recording they did, however, make a connection about the difference in successfulness based on whether a C.E.O. was internal or external to the company. The difference was that internal candidates made better C.E.O.’s and were over 25% more successful financial performance than external hires. The podcast also highlighted how important mistakes helped and taught the C.E.O.’s life lessons that eventually helped them develop into the successful C.E.O.’s that they were. Something that interested me during the lecture was how usually entrepreneurs are almost never their company’s C.E.O. in the long run. Usually entrepreneurs do not make good C.E.O.’s because of their inability to successfully run a business. The textbook describes a n  entrep...