DO YOU
HAVE THE
DNA
OF AN ENTREPRENEUR?
I was recently a guest at a business network breakfast meet and the youngster were bursting with enthusiasm to become entrepreneurs!!! Mid-career survivors the ones who have just been laid off in today business environment think even more vivaciously the “adventure” of being an entrepreneur.
One has to look at the graveyard of the entrepreneurial ventures of the 21st century. How many billions of precious money went up in smoke? Not to speak of the heartbreaks and the endless sleepless nights of toil and tension which came to naught? The universal statistics are clear 80 % of entrepreneurial startups fail in the nascent stage. 10% meekly survive to adulthood. And the one in a million becomes a Dhirubhai Ambani and a Jeff Bezos.
Do you think you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Becoming an entrepreneur takes a specific type of personality. Fortunately, it's the type of personality you can develop by working on yourself, growing, and learning how to express these traits. Focus on theser top traits below and you'll find yourself ahead of the crowd.
AN ENTREPRENEUR IS
FIERCELY INDEPENDENT
The wannabe entrepreneur
places a high value on independence .Like in Aesop’s fable the lean stray dog talking to the fat.collared dog… the starving mongrel would not
exchange the riches a chained existence for the fat privilege of roaming free in
the world. The wannabe entrepreneur knows that freedom is the prerequisite for
all success- it begins with an unfettered scope for your talents and energies.
But freedom also means responsibility hence the next step ...become self-driven
proactive and opportunity ready
AN ENTREPRENEUR IS A
SELF-STARTER
This is about more than
simply being your own boss. This is about more than simply being able to get up
in the morning and get to work. An entrepreneur is always capable of seeing a
tomorrow that's just a little bit better than today. He's not satisfied to just
sit on his laurels and enjoy the fruits of his success. He's constantly looking
forward-creating plausible plans to create more opportunities and find his next
point of success. An entrepreneur is also willing to push himself. Last year's
success was fine, but this year's success should reflect his growth. He's
always coming up with some new project and looking for ways to make that
project succeed.
AN ENTREPRENEUR HAS
IMMENSE SELF-BELIEF
There's not much room in
the business world for self-doubt. Fear can make you back away from projects
that could be the key to your ultimate success. Furthermore, the entrepreneur
has to be in the business of convincing other people that his
ideas are good. Partners, investors, financing, creative structuring-it all
depends on the entrepreneur's ability to convince other people that they're
making a good bet when they team up with him. If the entrepreneur isn't sure
about himself, how can anyone else be sure of him?
AN ENTREPRENEUR MAKES
THINGS HAPPEN
An entrepreneur looks at
a problem and knows it's an opportunity. That's not a cliché talking. A problem
is literally an opportunity to get paid if you can be the one
to solve it. Successful entrepreneurs make their name identifying problems
without solutions, and providing those solutions. Every good product solves
some sort of problem. Even video games solve a problem-they provide a way for
people to unwind after a stressful day and fulfill a fantasy.
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, your natural response to any given problem should always be to ask yourself how you can solve that problem. Not who is to blame, not how that problem came to be-just how the problem can be solved. Problem-solving becomes a habit. As you become alert to problems with no solutions, you become alert to new ways to create, grow, develop, and innovate new products. If you can marry this alertness to calculated action you will develop the instincts that you need to be an outstanding entrepreneur.
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, your natural response to any given problem should always be to ask yourself how you can solve that problem. Not who is to blame, not how that problem came to be-just how the problem can be solved. Problem-solving becomes a habit. As you become alert to problems with no solutions, you become alert to new ways to create, grow, develop, and innovate new products. If you can marry this alertness to calculated action you will develop the instincts that you need to be an outstanding entrepreneur.
AN ENTREPRENEUR HAS A
BIG APPETITE FOR RISK.
Risk-adverse people don't make very good entrepreneurs-but neither do extremely reckless people who leap first and look later. Real entrepreneurs evaluate their potential risks. They also know how to minimize the risks they need to take through hard work, dedication, and strategic planning.When a risk goes bad an entrepreneur doesn't waste a lot of time looking for someone to blame. Instead a true entrepreneur analyzes what went wrong, learns from it, and moves on.
SUMMING UP
Risk-adverse people don't make very good entrepreneurs-but neither do extremely reckless people who leap first and look later. Real entrepreneurs evaluate their potential risks. They also know how to minimize the risks they need to take through hard work, dedication, and strategic planning.When a risk goes bad an entrepreneur doesn't waste a lot of time looking for someone to blame. Instead a true entrepreneur analyzes what went wrong, learns from it, and moves on.
SUMMING UP
Now do you really want
to be an entrepreneur? Weight the pro’s and the cons’ It is said at the end of
your life you will regret the things you did not do … rather than the
blunders for which you paid a small price and the harvest of
benefits of making life an adventure
with best compliments
Dr Wilfred Monteiro
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