What are the qualities of authentic leadership and entrepreneurship? Are they certain qualities? Not all humans are the same and have the same traits and are famous among people for being known as the charming ones. Neither are all entrepreneurs born with the charisma to charm the customers. It might be something you develop over the years or acquire gradually. It is, however, been noticed that almost all businesspersons have certain traits common in them.
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Resilience
This is one of the important qualities of an authentic entrepreneur. Not everyone is lucky to succeed on the first attempt, and you might fail several times before your ideas work, and your efforts are recognized. Success is nothing but the ability to face back-to-back failures without losing even a bit of enthusiasm, as Sir Winston Churchill says. Unfortunately, failure cannot be avoided, and success is not a hundred percent guaranteed.
The authentic entrepreneur who wants to succeed will not fear failures but will always learn from them. Resilience is the key. They ask themselves what went wrong and what could have been done differently to avoid these mistakes in the next attempt. It is always a trial and error game.
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The never-ending search for opportunity
An authentic entrepreneur will make anything a business opportunity. Let it be an elevator ride with a possible investor or a dinner date of a common friend with influential people in it. But it is essential to walk that thin line of personal and professional but never to step anywhere outside that line. An entrepreneur must also know when to stop a pitch and turn the winds. It is possible that the time is not correct. It does not have to mean you have to blow your chance of pitching this person in the future.
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Passion
Love what you do. Passion is easily the essential personality trait in an authentic entrepreneur. You can never excel in what you do not love doing. Remember in school how you scored A only in the subjects you loved and managed to pass the ones you did not like but needed just to sail through? Yes, similarly, you need to get an A now, and the same zeal and passion are what it will take. However, the ups and downs will threaten your enthusiasm but it is the love and passion for your work that will refill the part.
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Be a self-starter
A self-starter does not want to be asked to complete a task and someone who does not settle with a pat on the back. They know what needs to be done and will do it anyway and anyhow. Manifest your best traits and love yourself. Even if there is no one to applaud for you, you do it for yourself for now and get done on what needs to be done. The business world is not for someone with a weak will, it is a cutthroat world out there, and one needs to be there ready to face anything it throws at you.
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Never-ending learning attitude
There is always something to learn, and one needs to keep an open mind to learn. Maybe the person in front of you has the worst possible sales pitch, but I am sure there is something in the way he said or did that you are willing to take home as learning. Maybe as what to do or even if as what not to do.
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Never let your vision get blurry
Things might get rough now and then, but you have a road map and should not be bumped at the speed breakers. They are there for a reason, remember? Get on the road only if you have what it takes to reach the peak of the road and maybe improvise from there. For now, start with a realistic and achievable peak, and then keep adding to your peak.
All the above-discussed traits and qualities are something that truly defines an entrepreneur. Hence, if you wish to become an entrepreneur, then you need to have and grow these qualities in the best way possible.
