Decisive - an entrepreneur must be firm in making decisions.
Communicator - an entrepreneur must have a convincing power.
Leader - an entrepreneur must have the charisma to be obeyed by his employees.
Opportunity seeker - an entrepreneur must have the ability to be the first to see business chances.
Proactive controlling a situation by making things to happen or by preparing for possible future problems.
Risk Taker - they have the courage to pursue their business ideas.
Innovative - the entrepreneurs have big business ideas and they do not stop improving and thinking of new worthwhile ideas for their business.
Core Competencies in Entrepreneurship
Economic and dynamic activity
Innovative
3. Profit Potential
4. Risk bearing
Economic and dynamicactivity Entrepreneurship is an economic activity because it involves the creation and operation of an enterprise with a view to creating value or wealth by ensuring optimum utilization of limited resources.
Innovative - Entrepreneurs constantly look for new ideas, thus he needs to be creative.
Profit Potential The entrepreneur can be compensated by his profit coming from the operation.
Riskbearing – The entrepreneur needs to gamble but wise enough to offset the risk.
Types of Entrepreneurs
Innovative entrepreneur
2. Imitating entrepreneurs
3. Fabian entrepreneurs
4. Drone entrepreneurs
5. Social entrepreneurs
Innovative entrepreneur
-They are those who always make new things by thinking of new ideas.
-They have the ability to think newer, better and more economical ideas.
Imitating entrepreneurs
They are those who don’t create new things but only follow the ideas of other entrepreneurs.
Fabian entrepreneurs
-They are skeptical about changes to be made in the organization.
-They don’t initiate but follow only after they are satisfied
Drone entrepreneur -They are those who lives on the labor of others.
-They are die-hard conservatives even ready to suffer the loss of business.
Social entrepreneurs
-They are those who initiate changes and drive social innovation and transformation in the various fields such as education, health, human rights, environment and enterprise development.
Career Opportunities of Entrepreneurship
Business Consultant
2. Teacher
3. Researcher
4. Sales.
5. Business Reporter
Business Consultant
-with the expertise of in the field of entrepreneurship,
he can be a very good source of advices to other entrepreneurs and would be business man.
Teacher - a graduate of an entrepreneurship can use his knowledge in teaching.
Researcher - the entrepreneur can be employed as researcher by an enterprise.
Sales the entrepreneurship graduate can apply as salesman.
Business Reporter
the entrepreneur being expert in the field,
-he can be employed as business report.
The word “entrepreneur” was derived from the French verb enterprendre, which means
“to undertake.”
The enterprise is created by an entrepreneur and the process is called “Entrepreneurship.”
Entrepreneurs are innovators, willing to take risks and generate new ideas to make it
unique and profitable solutions to the present-day problems.
Personality Factors which includes:
• Initiative
• Proactive
• Problem Solver
• Perseverance
• Persuasion
• A Planner
• Risk-taker
Personality Factors which includes:
• Initiative • Proactive• Problem Solver • Perseverance • Persuasion• A Planner• Risk-taker
Environmental Factors- which include political, climate, legal system, economic and social
conditions and market situations.
Initiative - which means doing things even before being told.
b. Proactive -which means he can classify opportunities and seize it.
Problem Solver - which means he can retain good relations with other people.
Perseverance - meaning he will pursue things to get done regardless of challenges.
Persuasion - means that he can entice people to buy even if they don’t.
A Planner - meaning he makes plan before doing things and do not fail to monitor it.
Risk-taker - which means that he is willing to gamble but he will calculate it first.