9 Entrepreneurial Traits
In order to become a good entrepreneur, there are 9 entrepreneurial traits that need to be implement if you want to be a successful entrepreneur.
1. Networked
2. Failure is an Option
Failure is part of being an
entrepreneur, you will take those failures and use them as learning
experiences. Real world experience, even failing, will teach you more than you
would ever learn in a classroom.
Richard Branson said it best: “Few first
ventures work out. It is how a beginning entrepreneur deals with failure that
sets that person apart. In fact, failure is one of the secrets to success,
since some of the best ideas arise from the ashes of a shuttered business.”
3. Observant
Being observant makes a person understand what people wants and
how people reacts. This is very important to understand as an entrepreneur. Caterina Fake, a tech entrepreneur and also the founder of Flickr
and Findery says, “Being open and observant of people and the world around you
is really important. People have the same desires and needs online as they do
offline. The way that people are stays constant. You can change the format,
make it easier for them to communicate or use photos instead of words but human
necessities never change.”.
4. Team Oriented
Team oriented means that you just don't think of
just yourself, you include others in your decisions.
"Talent
is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best
individual player will often win but then there’s a multiplier from how those
players work together and the strategy they employ."- Elon Musk
5. Proactive
Proactive
entrepreneurs
are those who biased towards action Instead of waiting for
events to unfold they take charge to influence their environment and make
things happen.
6. Outcome Oriented
Outcome oriented is a key factor in
many multinational companies evaluate the quality of talent. There are several
implications result-oriented:
a. To achieve the objective
principle, no difficulties to obstruct.
b. To complete the results as the standard, there is no reason or excuse.
c. In the face of the target is not understanding and compassion at all, only
b. To complete the results as the standard, there is no reason or excuse.
c. In the face of the target is not understanding and compassion at all, only
one
result: Yes or non.
d. The management
do not speak love, for understanding the underlying last
but
accommodate it.
e. In the face of results-oriented, can not
easily give up, because it means to
give up
and surrender.
f. Do not have a thought disorder, say "I do."
f. Do not have a thought disorder, say "I do."
7. Open Risk Taker
An risk taker entrepreneur tends to behave in a way that can potetially cause a loss, but also present an opportunity for a rewarding outcome.
Hugh Hefner created Playboy, Playboy was founded in 1953 , is a media
conglomerate listed on the New York Stock Exchange , publishes a variety of
publications, also has television , movies , and other services . In addition
to Playboy magazine which published in the US, but also publishing local
editions in several countries. Hugh Hefner is a successful entrepreneur , he
has distinct thought ,he is the only one who can think about the way to attract
the most of men’ eyes , and there is no one who dare to try this way .
8. Visionary
Visionary is having or showing clear
ideas about what should happen or be done in the future.
Prabowo is one of entrepreneur that develop visionary traits, he has dozens of companies engaged in various
fields. Prabowo did have companies
in many fields, such
as forestry, pulp and paper,
palm oil, coal mining
and service companies.
9. Open Culture
Open
Culture is a concept according to which knowledge should be spread freely and
its growth should come from developing, altering or enriching already existing
works on the basis of sharing and collaboration, without being restricted by
rules linked to the legal protection of intellectual property. In a context of
globalization, the consequence is that all citizens should have equal access to
information.