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I found the presentation that was made on Business Plan's very informative, I learned alot about preparing a business plan, but I also learned that there was a lot of work involved and I realized how important an executive summary was to a business plan and having and exit strategy would be benefit in the decision making with the investor's or lender's involved. It all seems pretty stressful, but the end result should be satisfying.

On-Line Shopping

On-line shopping was something I personally thought I would never do, but it's very popular now, I was first very spectical of trying it because of entering your credit information, but most sites that I shop in are pretty secure, its just easier to do online shopping, I buy event tickets and at times I will buy clothes on line, I guess today everyone's favorite site is ebay, because you can find things that are different, in today's fast paced world, you dont always have the time to get to a shopping mall and some times with christmas around the corner, its more convenient then to stand in line waiting to pay for your item's and all the pushing and shoving and bumbing into carts..it's not fun, the store's are way to crowded, besides you often find better deals on line then you would in the department stores.

Elevator pitch

Barb Martin is a consultant who specializes in reviewing and developing policies, her good working knowledge in current opportunities and dealing with challenges facing First Nation communities in Canada. She has been involved in this area for 25 years and has worked with governments, Aboriginal groups in economic development, Aboriginal justice, housing, economic developmemt, heatlh, environment, Indian Act amnedments and constitutional issues, she is also involved with working with the provicial and national native organizations and is well respected for her abilities to facilitate processes that bring people together, as well as to assist organizations in developing and prusing their long term goals.

professional

I think through school, students are being trained to be professional's, to become or to be professional you must be trained at what you do, it's like every process in life, we need to have the education, to me to be professional you need to present yourself in a professional manner to earn respect of others in business like manner and be educated in the field you are working in, it's important that you must take your position seriously and not to just take it or considered it as just an income coming in, you must be aware of every aspect of your position and its a constant learning experience, your not expected to know everything but its important that you make yourself aware of what is going on in your field of expertise, if you truly want to be professional.

why is this subject Taboo?

after reading this article, I couldn't understand how we are suppose to comment on this article on business stand point, it talks about how we should educate ourselves and how our leadership should take the initiative to educate us and take on more responsibility for financial transparency.

Learning Journal

I have been working for the Band Council since 1994 under many programs and department, I guess it would be everyone's dream to own their own business one day, I have never owned my own business but I would like to but it seems like there is never enough time to get the training I would require to open my own business. I feel that by taking this class I would be motivated enough to get the tools I require to open my own business one day. At the present time, I am operating a Business for my Band Council in the fisheries department and by taking these classes I am getting the necessary tools to continue to grow within my department.

Quiz B - what kind of learner are you

I had a difficult time to answer this question, I guess what works for me, is reading over and over my readings and discussing the issues with my classmates, this is what makes me understand better, in our previous classes, we had to do some critical thinking and then discuss our readings with the entire class and getting others feedback and their interpretation of the reading materials gives me a better concept then how I may be viewing the reading materials and also to have others have their opinions on certain issues.