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I wanna be a cowboy, baby…

June 18, 2008 By Daniel DiGriz

Hallmarks of the Entrepreneur

  • Breaks rules
  • Continually steps (or stays) off the prescribed path
  • Challenges or questions authority
  • Sees a world outside the usual definitions
  • Has a minority of peers
  • Is accustomed to risk
  • Is open to failure (indeed, successful entrepreneurs are typified by significant past failures)
  • Invests and believes primarily in himself – his brand is himself
  • Blends experimental and analytical approaches to problems (see ‘accustomed to risk’)
  • Continually flirts with ideas outside the box (brainstorms)
  • Makes judgments (discriminates between what is helpful and what isn’t: rules, relationships, adventures, and ideas)

And for all these things, the entrepreneur is widely considered arrogant, a rebel, and any host of words that may mean “anti-social” or proud or untamed. Despite the pejorative use of the term: he is the “cowboy” of the modern era.

Filed Under: Rules Tagged With: coloring outside the lines, entrepreneur

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