3. •An entrepreneur is a person who has
possession of a new idea
•Entrepreneurs are the ones who work ON a
business, not IN a business
•An entrepreneur is someone who can
think “outside the box”.
4. Functions of Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurial Promotional Managerial Commercial
• Innovation
•Risk taking
•Organizational
Building
• Idea Evolving
•Detailed INV
•Assembling
requirements
•Financing
• Planning
•Organizing
•Staffing
•Directing
•Leadership
•Communication
•Motivation
•Coordinating
•Controling
• Production
•Marketing
•Accounting
•Finance
7. Why Entrepreneurial
Thinking Is Important Today
• More sophisticated competition.
• Failure to understand traditional motivation.
• People’s jobs are too small for their
abilities!
• Power of change.
• 10 years from now??
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10. Characteristics of an
Entrepreneur
•Transferable values. building businesses without believing in
what they're doing.
•Willingness to work hard the harder I work, the more I get.
•Knowing what they don't know
•Listening carefully. Shutting up.
•Vision
•Making mistakes
•Jumping viewpoints
INOVATIVE
11. There are those who make things
happen -
Those who watch things happen -
And those who ask what happened!
Translation
Lead, Follow, or Get out of the way!
15. Idea Stoppers
“The greatest difficulty in the world
is not for people to accept new
ideas, but to make them forget
about old ideas.”
~John Maynard Keynes, Economist
17. Everything is always
impossible before it works!
That is what entrepreneurial
thinking is all about, doing
what people tell you is
impossible.
18. Entrepreneurial Excellence can be
attained if you…
Expect more than others think is
practical.
Dare more than others think is wise.
Risk more than others think is safe.
Dream more than others think is
possible.