Shawn Davis

13A – Reading Reflection No. 1

1.      The thing that surprised me the most was Ray Kroc who was the founder of McDonald’s did not have instance success because the fact it’s so successful now. The thing that I most admired about Ray Kroc as an entrepreneur is that he had futuristic mindset that allowed his to see what would basically succeed in the future. Reading the book I think it’s fair to say that there is nothing I didn’t admire about Ray. Ray defiantly encountered adversity throughout his journey of creating McDonalds what it is today. One of the examples of this is when he got screwed on his paper cup company and was struggling to live off of the income he was making afterwards, which showed the level of resiliency he had.

2.      One of the competencies that he had in his entrepreneurship was finding out the need in the people of the market so he saw that the global world was looking for products that would decomposed easily in the future. This is how he had such great success in the paper cup business.

3.      One part of the reading that you would have looked at that you would like to know more about so it wouldn’t be so confusing is how he became business partners with the McDonalds brothers so easily.

4.       When did you know that McDonalds would become as big of a company as big as it is? What made you so intrigued by meeting people’s needs with products? I would ask these questions because one day I would like to have a business of my own.

5.      Ray believed in hard work because that’s the main thing that go him through and also to be successful in his business. Yes I do share this opinion.