8 Essential Qualities to Become an Entrepreneur
6 July 2012
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Being an entrepreneur is a bit like being the Indiana Jones of the business world. Yes, because it's easy to criticize your boss, carefully forgetting that it's often he who risks the most in the business, but it's much more difficult to become one and be forced to make delicate decisions every day.
1. Knowing how to make a difference
Knowing how to make a difference means being able to show what makes it necessary to work with you and not with someone else, that it is you who will bring that little "plus" that makes all the difference, precisely! Keywords? Self-confidence, efficiency, personal charisma, motivation, good humor, spirit of innovation, faith in the future…
2. Being creative, innovative
It is essential for any entrepreneur to create a climate that encourages his collaborators to have ideas and to evolve himself in a kind of laboratory universe where everything is likely to become a new creation, a new product. This presupposes open structures, broad ideas, non-restrictive value judgments, momentum in the face of what has not yet been dared.
3. Being attentive, receptive to the environment
A business leader, even when strolling peacefully in the street, must remain vigilant, be able to adapt what he sees to what he could create, bring something new (bring more) to his company. This could be packaging, a keyword, a new way of proceeding, or something he noticed in another company that his own is still missing. An entrepreneur is constantly in a state of "receiving" new information, sorting it and making it into new usable material. To summarize, we would say, with a smile: "the boss never sleeps"!
4. Knowing how to evaluate one's actions
Too often, we think evaluation in terms of simple statistics, figures, columns of figures… However, perhaps the most important thing in a company (and elsewhere) is not quantifiable, and it proves impossible to put into an equation. Statistics are wrong. Intuition is sometimes right where the figure has only given incomplete and truncated (not to say rigged) information.
5. Inspiring confidence
Inspiring confidence means releasing those energies that make you want to entrust you with missions because you know how to "enter" but also "leave" boxes when necessary. You know how to adapt to the times and to the different professional and human worlds you rub shoulders with.
Inspiring confidence means being comfortable with yourself, being comfortable with others, being comfortable in your creative and action environment.
6. Knowing how to be indignant
Yes, it's very fashionable to be indignant, and it can make you smile. However, it is true that dissatisfaction – when it is not chronic, gratuitous and sterile – incites us, carries us, lifts us towards action. It is absolutely useless to try to be innovative if you no longer have that little flame, that revolt, that slight rage that makes you want to "revolutionize the world".
7. Being intuitive
The leader is intuitive. Intuitive people understand, absorb and feel things that others ignore. They have developed that sixth sense that allows them to 'know without knowing', that is to say to know not with their head but with their guts. A somewhat special form of clairvoyance, an animal quality in a very human brain. Far from fearing his intuitions, they must be strong enough to give him the power to fight for them, and the necessary ardor to share and communicate them.
8. Being honest
To understand a team and provide it with what it needs, it is not essential to know how to do everything and be everything, but it is imperative to be honest enough to identify what one is not able to bring and what one will have to go and look for elsewhere.
Article written by the ReKrute.com team
1. Knowing how to make a difference
Knowing how to make a difference means being able to show what makes it necessary to work with you and not with someone else, that it is you who will bring that little "plus" that makes all the difference, precisely! Keywords? Self-confidence, efficiency, personal charisma, motivation, good humor, spirit of innovation, faith in the future…
2. Being creative, innovative
It is essential for any entrepreneur to create a climate that encourages his collaborators to have ideas and to evolve himself in a kind of laboratory universe where everything is likely to become a new creation, a new product. This presupposes open structures, broad ideas, non-restrictive value judgments, momentum in the face of what has not yet been dared.
3. Being attentive, receptive to the environment
A business leader, even when strolling peacefully in the street, must remain vigilant, be able to adapt what he sees to what he could create, bring something new (bring more) to his company. This could be packaging, a keyword, a new way of proceeding, or something he noticed in another company that his own is still missing. An entrepreneur is constantly in a state of "receiving" new information, sorting it and making it into new usable material. To summarize, we would say, with a smile: "the boss never sleeps"!
4. Knowing how to evaluate one's actions
Too often, we think evaluation in terms of simple statistics, figures, columns of figures… However, perhaps the most important thing in a company (and elsewhere) is not quantifiable, and it proves impossible to put into an equation. Statistics are wrong. Intuition is sometimes right where the figure has only given incomplete and truncated (not to say rigged) information.
5. Inspiring confidence
Inspiring confidence means releasing those energies that make you want to entrust you with missions because you know how to "enter" but also "leave" boxes when necessary. You know how to adapt to the times and to the different professional and human worlds you rub shoulders with.
Inspiring confidence means being comfortable with yourself, being comfortable with others, being comfortable in your creative and action environment.
6. Knowing how to be indignant
Yes, it's very fashionable to be indignant, and it can make you smile. However, it is true that dissatisfaction – when it is not chronic, gratuitous and sterile – incites us, carries us, lifts us towards action. It is absolutely useless to try to be innovative if you no longer have that little flame, that revolt, that slight rage that makes you want to "revolutionize the world".
7. Being intuitive
The leader is intuitive. Intuitive people understand, absorb and feel things that others ignore. They have developed that sixth sense that allows them to 'know without knowing', that is to say to know not with their head but with their guts. A somewhat special form of clairvoyance, an animal quality in a very human brain. Far from fearing his intuitions, they must be strong enough to give him the power to fight for them, and the necessary ardor to share and communicate them.
8. Being honest
To understand a team and provide it with what it needs, it is not essential to know how to do everything and be everything, but it is imperative to be honest enough to identify what one is not able to bring and what one will have to go and look for elsewhere.
Article written by the ReKrute.com team
