Entrepreneurship and roles

Posted on June 24, 2007

While there are plenty of books explaining the roles in an organization I’m not sure what to say about the entrepreneurs. Ok so for a business we have the gatekeeper, the adviser, etc, etc but the entrepreneur can only be and have one role to cover all needs.

I think we can strip down things to 2 major roles/actions that actually define 2 entrepreneur types:

  • Keeping things at the normality level
  • Improving and getting performance

First of all, people in general are afraid of changes and do whatever they can to keep things as they “should be”, striving for … “normality”. I assume most of the things we do in life are done to keep up with society rules - we dress up certain ways, we talk, act and behave as the society tells us to do. Entrepreneurs do the same. They spend really a lot of time to comply. They should comply with local laws, commercial laws, and all sorts of rules. So we can surely say that entrepreneurs have a role and do actions of keeping things under control, make them normal.

Now, the important thought is that as the business evolves, the “keeping things at the normality level” gets transfered to employees - not because its not important, but because the real role of any entrepreneur is the second set of actions: “Improving and getting performance”.

I wrote before about Entrepreneurship failure but the single most important reason for failure is (in my opinion) staying too long with the keeping things under control phase and not getting soon enough to the improving stage.

Just by looking at examples from my hometown, I could say that most businesses that went down the drain where the ones that didn’t improved or seek performance.

Does this make sense?

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2 Responses to “Entrepreneurship and roles”

  1. armand rousso [Visitor] on June 26th, 2007 11:51 am

    Instead of reading plenty of books explaining the roles in an organization for Business and be an entrepreneur, I advise to start building your network, one of the key sucess to be a great entrepreneur. Armand Rousso

  2. chloe [Visitor] on July 6th, 2007 12:45 pm

    I Agree Armand Rousso on networking is key sucess, we are on the same office with armand ;)

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