presentation on entrepreneurial leadership for communities in rural Nevada

1. Entrepreneurial Leadership
Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.
www.bretlsimmons.com

2. Today
• Introductions
• Entrepreneurial behavior
• Leadership and work relationships
• Participative exercises
• Breaks
• Questions

3. Introductions
• Name
• What do you do?
• Why are you here?
• Three words other people use to
describe you

4. Entrepreneurial
• Who is the most entrepreneurial person you
know in your community or organization?
• List three traits
(personality/character/attitude) and three
behaviors (things he/she does) that make
this person entrepreneurial

5. The Typical Entrepreneur (Shane, 2008)
• White man married in his forties
• Has a working spouse
• Was born in the US and has lived here his whole life
• Has spent much of his life in the town where he
started his business
• Is just trying to make a living, not trying to build a
high-growth business
• Worked previously in the industry in which he
started his company, something like construction or
insurance or retail
• Has no special psychological characteristics

6. Why Become An Entrepreneur?
• 1/3 loose money
• 1/3 just break even
• 1/3 some degree of profit

7. Why Become An Entrepreneur?
Satisfaction
• Autonomy
• Flexibility
• Greater control over lives

8. Entrepreneurial Behaviors
• Comfort interacting with
customers, employees and
investors
• Curiosity
• Creativity
• Innovation

9. Opportunity Thinking
People tend to discover opportunities
related to what they know. When they
don’t know about something, new
information on the topic is lost on them and
they don’t see opportunities. (Scott, 2009)
If you want to be more entrepreneurial, what
does this suggest you need to do?

10. Beginner’s
Mind

11. Leadership
• Who is the best leader you know in your
community or organization?
• List three traits
(personality/character/attitude) and three
behaviors (things he/she does) that make
this person a good leader

12. Business priority and daily
behavior
• What should be the #1 priority of most
businesses? What is the most important
thing that everyone in your business
needs to understand is the key to your
future?
• What is the most important thing you
need to do on a daily basis to achieve
this priority?

13. Loyal customers
Remarkable products/services
Remarkable operations
Remarkable employees
You

14. Your Core Performance
Technology

15. Leadership is..
Do the right thing

16. Leadership is..
Influence
Relationship
Real Change
Shared Purpose

17. Interdependent Partners

18. 100 Percent
Performance Caring
Master, then continuously We don’t trust people we
improve your job believe don’t care about
us
Enable
Encourage
Praise grit
Integrity

19. Interdependent Partnership
Responsibility
Expectations
Accountability
Learning

20. Entrepreneurial Leadership
• What is the one thing you need to work
on to be more entrepreneurial
• What is the one thing you need to work
on to be a better leader

21. Questions?

22. Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.
www.bretlsimmons.com
@drbret
(775) 336-9576