Dry Cooking - Entrep S09 Team A

ENTREP S09

Gabatin, Rocky

Padilla, Pamela

Senica, Carlo

Ursua, Jennifer

Dry Cooking Exercise - Team A

Starting ingredients:

cherries

strawberries

red bell peppers

Additional ingredients:

condensed milk

potato chips (sour cream and onion flavour)

fresh fruits (pineapples, papaya, melon, grapes)

vegetables (lettuce, shredded carrots, cherry tomatoes, corn)

ranch dressing

wheat bread

sardines in tomato sauce

DISHES

The group prepared a healthy menu, consisting mainly of fresh fruits, vegetables and fish. Each dish was named after a team member for easy recall and branding.

Bloody Jenny - cut fresh fruits in red bell pepper cups, drizzled with condensed milk

Ingredients:

red bell peppers

fruits

condensed milk

Procedure:

cut the red bell peppers into wedges

clean the red bell peppers; remove the seeds and the thick white skin

arrange the fresh fruits in the red bell peppers, and lightly drizzle with condensed milk

Sweet Pammy - sweet and crunchy open-faced sandwich

Ingredients:

wheat bread

fresh fruits

vegetables (corn, carrots, cherry tomatoes)

condensed milk

potato chips

lettuce

Procedure:

place the lettuce on a slice of wheat bread

arrange the fruits and vegetables on top of the lettuce

crush a handful of sour cream flavoured potato chips and sprinkle over the sandwich

lightly drizzle with condensed milk and crushed cherries

serve open-faced or with another slice of wheat bread

Rocky's Dip - a fruity 'fondue'

Ingredients:

fresh fruits

Procedure:

mash cherries and strawberries together to make a dip

arrange the fresh fruits on a plate, along with the dip

Carlo's Surprise - healthy lettuce wrap with ranch dressing

Ingredients:

lettuce

sardines

vegetables

ranch dressing

Procedure:

arrange the lettuce leaves on a plate

place the vegetables on the lettuce

place the sardines with a little tomato sauce on top of the vegetables

drizzle with ranch dressing

this dish is meant to be wrapped and eaten with the hands

Please include the pitch you made in the class

Factors Paper by Carlo Senica

Factors Paper by Carlo Senica

SPENTREP - S09

As I do self-assessment on the factors that I have & don't have to be a business entrepreneur, I come up with the following list:

Factors that I think I have to be a business entrepreneur:

1.       Attitude & Willingness to take action = Taking an MBA degree, staying up late to do assignments and prepare for exams, and learning new things are my first steps of being an entrepreneur. I think this attitude building will help me progress as I pursue my dream of being an entrepreneur someday.   

2.       Motivation = I have this strong self-motivation that I'll have my own business at the age of 35 – 40yrs (the earlier, the better, but I'm not rushing things). In fact, I already claimed it as I wrote it in my long term personal achievement plan 3 years ago. As part of my motivation as of to-date, I already achieve some of my short term personal plans and other mid-term personal plans are on its way.

3.       Knowledge = Everything can be learned if you have the right attitude and pushed by your strong motivation.

4.       Financials = Money is not a problem as every businessman says. Because You can apply for a loan to start your business or You can either seek for investor/s to finance your business. I think what important is, how you manage the money wisely.

Factors that I think I don't have to be a business entrepreneur:

1.       Family background = I didn't came from a family of businessman; I was raised by a Filipino mentality to study well to get a good paying job paired with good benefits. Now that I've achieved that, it's time for me to raise the bar in our family and start in a new endeavor by having my own business.

2.       Experience = As an old adage says, Your personal experience is your best teacher. In this criterion, I totally have a zero experience with regards to managing own/family business. What I've is, a diversified working experience as an employee which I think I can bank on someday as I put my own.

3.       Creativity = In this criteria, I think & feel that I'm not that creative or simply lack creativity to be unique. What I can do now, is to continuously practice thinking new ideas and/or improving existing ones.  

4.       Self – confidence = With lack of experience, creativity, and family background; this holds me from being confident that I can be a successful entrepreneur. But I believe as I jump into having my own business, I'll learn and confidence will eventually build-up. <pls see the work of Trizza Castro and benchmark>

Factors Paper by Trizza Rushel V. Castro

What factors I do / don't posses that make / do not make me a Business Entrep (not more than 3 pages). You can do a self assessment available from the internet. Do a thorough self analysis.

Before writing this paper, I tried a self assessment test in the Internet for readiness on becoming an Entrepreneur. This is the result:

50 Item Entrepreneuralism Questionnaire Results

Personality Trait	Low   Fairly-low    Average    Fairly-high  High	Score
Achievement Striving	llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll	44
Industriousness	lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll	34
Passion	lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll	33
Taking control	lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll	38
Creativity	lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll	34

The link used is http://www.psychometrictest.org.uk/entrepreneur-test/. Achievement Striving is a person's internal motivation to achieve outstanding results and their propensity to work hard towards goals. Industriousness is a person's level of persistence, resistance to stress and self discipline. Passion refers to an individual's emotional intensity, enthusiasm and emotion-based decision making. Taking control is related to the psychological theory of "locus of control", the extent to which individuals believe they can control events that affect them. Creativeness is the use of imagination to develop and implement original and innovative ideas.

At a very young age, I was already exposed to businesses and entrepreneurs. My parents owned a "Carinderia" when was a kid, we also experienced a franchise of Triumph (a lingerie shop), and now, at present my father is managing a closed lending corporation. My mom, on the other hand, is presently working with the Department of Trade and Industry and they routinely organize trade fairs (where new products are introduced). From there, I had the chance to be involved in their activities and I was amazed of the new ideas created. In college, I took up Business Administration, obviously also exposed to trade fairs and other business activities. It goes to show that in terms of knowledge and awareness, I am somehow trained and experienced to be an entrepreneur.

Surprisingly, I possess some attitudes and habits that entrepreneurs have. Maybe because of the exposure I had when I was still a kid. I love discovering new things and when someone would come up to me and share an idea, I become proud and excited on how it will realizably turn out-the feature and purpose. From then on, I feel that I am always curious and in search for discovery.

I am a leader and that means I need to direct but I also need to follow. I also need to follow my subordinates because they too can create new ideas or new ways that can attain our goals. I am a follower. I don't mind working with someone else besides, it will be more helpful for me because someone is there to support and criticize my work. Through that person, I will gain more knowledge and experiences. I will learn something new.

 I am not afraid to take risks and I like to have that feeling of being challenged in taking new projects or overcoming problems. "If you will not act now, when will be the right time?" What if that opportunity passed?

I can handle stress and I also like cramming. I can still work effectively even in stressful situations especially if there are only few hours left before deadline.

When problems arise, I believe that there are other alternatives or if not, there will always be a contingency plan. I see good solutions in every problem. Everything is possible.

As a person, I want to be recognized on what I have done well. I want to be appreciated. Most of the time, people only criticize your wrong ways and decisions. Sometimes, I become more motivated if people also criticize the good work I have done.

For me, action is very important. No matter what people say I always find a way to prove that my ideas make sense. I become persistent. The action must be executed well.

I have the capability of imagining things and how I can make it work. Most of the time, I am already owning the situation because I am confident enough that the situation will turn out the way I imagined it to be.

I always give my best and my full confidence on a certain project given to me especially if its in my area of competency but if I failed, I will look at is as an opportunity to improve or learn. Like an artist said "Failure is only the opportunity again, only this time, more wisely"

Leading people is not easy especially in motivating them to do the action but the important thing is the effort I make in giving them the motivation they need.

People know that change is the only constant thing in this world. I am a person who is open to change and if I need to make sacrifices for that change, I will be ready. In the business world, everything is fast pace and I should be part of that fast ride.

It is okay to be ambitious and I am proud to be one. I am hungry for something new-innovation, new ideas, new discoveries. This ambition will remain an ambition if I will not find a way to achieve it. And I must achieve in the right and ethical way. 3.5

 

"Seize the Opportunity"

Trizza Rushel V. Castro

 Entrepreneurship, MBA