There
is on one definitive profile that entrepreneur must possess, even though they
come in various ages, income levels, gender, race, education and experience,
research shows that most successful entrepreneurs share common attributes.
TOP AMONG THESE ATTRIBUTES ARE:
1. SENSE OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
Entrepreneurs are usually
identified by their ambitions to create and innovate (this is to develop new
ideas, methods, processes, products, services, and above all, new solutions)
which meet new requirement and provide more value to stakeholders of their
products and services.
They are always striving hard to
bring about positive change around themselves. To them, creativity is the spark
that drives the development of new products and services or ways to bring or do
business. It is the push for innovation and improvement, and likewise this is
where entrepreneurship is more that self-employment or mere business ownership
2. FLEXIBILITY
Flexibility is the ability to
move quickly in response in changing market needs. A lot of successful
entrepreneurs are very adaptive and receptive to change their trends. They are
not dogmatic in spirit, in fact they are not ‘old schools’ in their thinking and perception of business ideas,
events and politics.
3. PASSION AND DISCIPLINE
Good entrepreneurs love what they do. To them, work is not simply ‘work’, it’s their life, they never look
at it as their day-jobs or part-time activities, but as their full-time
business activities. As such, they work extremely hard to accomplish their
goals. This does not mean that they are workaholics or are married to their
jobs. No. they only set boundaries, and know how to work hard and work smart.
4. DETERMINATION AND PERSERVERANCE
From the word determination is
the extremely strong desire to achieve success but some people mistake
determination for ‘passion’ but no
its not, determination comes from the mind that wells to do something till the
achievement go found and done with extremely desire.
However it includes persistence
and the ability to bounce back after rough times. For the true entrepreneur,
money is the reward. This is why most successful entrepreneurs are always
resolute and dedicated to their enterprises. They endure a lots of things
during the early stages of their entrepreneurial activities. Entrepreneurs expect
that they can fail at times but they believe that even if they have not failed
they have not learned.
5. LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Generally leadership is the
ability to create rules and to set goals. In other words, it is the capacity to
follow through to see that rules are followed and goals are accomplished.
Likewise, successful entrepreneurs are natural leaders who possess many
leadership skills/qualities.
They are good at managing all aspects of their
professional and personal lives. They have the ability to make big decisions,
and the right decisions. They can have the right to give good opinions.
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