The document discusses entrepreneurship as a disease or condition rather than a career choice or business type. It argues that entrepreneurs have a characteristic trait of obsession over their work that cannot be trained or treated, and that they wake up excited to work without concern for basic needs. While entrepreneurialism has an unknown cure, it is not derived from money but from leveraging one's strengths. The document concludes that if one is an entrepreneur they should use that to their advantage, but if not they should focus on their own strengths rather than trying to become an entrepreneur, and hire one if needed for an organization to succeed.

1. Entrepreneurship as DISEASE
Prepared by: Walid Saafan
Jan 2016

2. Author:
Jeff Stibel
Chairman and CEO of Dun &
Bradstreet Credibility Corp.
HBR
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

3. What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?

4. Risk taker

5. Inventor

6. Small business
owner

7. Plain crazy or lucky

8. Nooooooooo
Being an entrepreneur is something
far different than what most
people think

9. Behavior!
Business type!
Title!
NOT

10. Entrepreneurism is a Disease,
Not sure it is always good!

12. “Larry Ellison”
yachts

13. “Bill Gates“
66,000-square foot smart house

14. “TedTurner”
2 million acres of land

15. “Larry Page”
747

16. all in, all the time
love what they do
and obsess over it
Entrepreneurs

17. willingness
character trait
labor of love
enthusiasm that cannot be trained
a condition that cannot be treated
an illness that cannot be caught
You’ve either got it or you don’t

19. Do you wake up before your alarm goes off,
hop out of bed excited to go to work? (good)
Do you race to the car, forgetting breakfast,
your morning coffee, and the paper? (better)
Halfway to work, do you look down, realize you
forgot to shower, shave, or get dressed? (great)

20. entrepreneurialism; cure unknown

21. Not derived by Money

22. relying on strengths and avoiding weaknesses

23. Energy
confidence level
tendency to acquire subject-matter expertise
leveraging core competencies

24. If you are an entrepreneur, use it to your advantage
But if not, don’t try to become one

25. figure out what you do best and aim to do it better
than anyone else.
And if your organization needs an entrepreneur for
it to succeed, just hire one.

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