Study: Qualities of Entrepreneur to Succeed a Business

Success of an organization highly depends on the entrepreneur’s qualities and traits. Some entrepreneurs own success items and they turn things into success while others could not meet such big success if not, in worst cases, fail. So, what makes such successful entrepreneurs different from those that still turn around in their vicious circles and couldn’t meet any success?

Starting a business requires a lot of hard and smart work, and this is not at the hands of everyone. Even with a lot of plans and firm strategies, things won’t always work as expected. Some things that were supposed to work will just turn to fail, and unexpected problems will occur. At that moment comes the role of the entrepreneur that has the qualities of leading the business with passion and patience to come over such obstacles and reach success.

Small businesses are vulnerable and the presence of a good entrepreneur is more crucial. Small businesses are the locomotives of any economy and they have a considerable impact on the market.

A new study published recently has investigated qualities of entrepreneurship and "the common reasons that motivate people to become and work as entrepreneurs along with the constraints they face when starting and developing their business activity." For that purpose researchers asked 250 people "engaging in the manufacturing trading and services sectors in Small and Medium Industries".

To succeed as a leader of an organization, the entrepreneur needs a number of traits. The mentioned study stated what researchers called the five leadership qualities. The leader is required to be "honest, forward looking, competent, inspiring and intelligent".

Besides, innovation and creativity is another factor that needs to be considered. A lot of studies have stressed the importance of innovation in business success, but implementing innovation requires an entrepreneur that believes in it and ready to adopt it into business.

Among the other factors researchers said contribute to the entrepreneur success including risk taking, innovation, communication, and connect with others.

• Taking risk in taking appropriate decisions for their business activities;
  • Innovation and creativity are the perception to accept new ideas;
  • Confidence to be independent in taking decision and conduction their own business;
  • Relationship with other to establish and maintain good relationship with people involved in business.

Being a successful leader doesn’t mean to be the source of every ideas, but to be intelligent enough to interact with others and get what necessary to push the business forward. As stated in the study, as entrepreneur you could learn a lot from "people you lead by asking intelligent questions and opinions." Thus, you "will capable to increase credibility."

The entrepreneur must be very intelligent by gently leading people toward understanding even when he knows the answer

• Display emotions exactly in line with feelings
• Make decision based on my core values
• Demonstrate beliefs that are consistent with actions.

Researchers mentioned other entrepreneurial qualities that considered the significant characteristics for entrepreneur including to "believe in actions 59 % from respondents, analyze before actions 63% and listening the others 52 %".

According to the results researchers acquired by their survey "Quality attributes of entrepreneurs that make big contribution to the high of entrepreneurial quality of business people are:

innovation and creativity 58,8%,

self confidence 63,2%,

connection with others 55,6 %

and communication 51,6%

Researchers have summed up some of the factors needed to lead an organization to success into 4 main elements:

• Planning – making decisions with regards to the future and making those plans happen.
• Do – utilizing the fullest potential of resources people, capital and assets to ensure the success of the plans.
• Activity – inspiring others to do their part effectively in carrying out the organization’s plans.
• Controlling – step by step monitoring of the implementation process to see if changes are necessary to be made on the plans.

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