Entrepreneurial Qualities As Potential Liabilities In Managing


Some of the very qualities it takes to start a new business can actually cause problems in the operation once it is underway. The behavior patterns of the entrepreneur often include independence, stubbornness (sometimes to the point of bullheadedness), impatience, argumentativeness, and anxiety. These can be intensified by the uncertainties and extraordinary pressures of the early days of the business and can show themselves in alternating periods of elation and depression.

The entrepreneur wants desperately to achieve- for the business to succeed. The drive to be achieving and to create a unique enterprise is fueled along the way by the entrepreneur