Intrepreneur (Intrepreneurship)
is an employees working passionately in the organization whose mindset is like Entrepreneur.
This is like in like growing own business,
taking ownership. This requires many skills to be successful. Take a look at
the business personality types and find out what you need to succeed. Are you Steve
Jobs, a Visionary, or an Improver like Facebook founder?
Your business personality type are the traits and characteristics
of your personality that blend with the needs of the business. If you better
understand your business personality, then you can give your company the best
part of you. Find others to help your business in areas you may not be prepared
to fulfill.
There are 9 key types of personality and understanding each will
help you enjoy your organization more and provide your company with what it
needs to grow.
Begin identifying your dominant personality theme and understand
how you operate in your business.
Personality Types of Intrepreneurs
1. The Improver: If you operate your business predominately
in the improver mode, you are focused on using your company as a means to
improve the world. Your overarching motto is: morally correct companies will be
rewarded working on a noble cause. Improvers have an unwavering ability to run
their business with high integrity and ethics.
Personality Alert: Be aware of your tendency to be a perfectionist and
over-critical of employees and customers.
2. The Advisor: This business personality type will provide an extremely
high level of assistance and advice to customers. The advisor's motto is: the
customer is right and we must do everything to please them. Companies built by
advisors become customer focused.
Personality Alert: Advisors can become totally focused on the needs of
their business and customers that they may ignore their own needs and
ultimately burn out.
3. The Superstar: Here the business is centered around the charisma and high
energy of the Superstar CEO. This personality often will cause you to build
your business around your own personal brand.
Personality Alert: Can be too competitive and workaholics.
4. The Artist: This business personality is the reserved but highly
creative type. Often found in businesses demanding creativity such as web
design and ad agencies. As an artist type you’ll tend to build your business
around the unique talents and creativities you have.
Personality Alert: You may be overly sensitive to your customer’s
responses even if the feedback is constructive. Let go the negative self-image.
5. The Visionary: A business built by a Visionary will often be based on
the future vision and thoughts of the founder. You will have a high degree of
curiosity to understand the world around you and will set-up plans to avoid the
landmines.
Personality Alert: Visionaries can be too focused on the dream with
little focus on reality. Action must proceed vision.
6. The Analyst: If you run a business as an Analyst, your company is
focus on fixing problems in a systematic way. Often the basis for science,
engineering or computer firms, Analyst companies excel at problem solving.
Personality Alert: Be aware of analysis paralysis. Work on trusting
others.
7. The Fireball: A business owned and operated by a Fireball is full of
life, energy and optimism. Your company is life-energizing and makes customers
feel the company has a get it done attitude in a fun playful manner.
Personality Alert: You may over commit your teams and act to
impulsively. Balance your impulsiveness with business planning.
8. The Hero: You have an incredible will and ability to lead the world
and your business through any challenge. You are the essence of
entrepreneurship and can assemble great companies.
Personality Alert: Over promising and using force full tactics to get
your way will not work long term. To be successful, trust your leadership
skills to help others find their way.
9. The Healer: If you are a Healer, you provide nurturing and harmony to
your business. You have an uncanny ability to survive and persist with an inner
calm.
Personality Alert: Because of your caring, healing attitude toward your
business, you may avoid outside realities and use wishful thinking. Use
scenario planning to prepare for turmoil.
Each business personality type can succeed in the business environment if you
stay true to your character. Knowing firmly what your strong traits are can act
as a compass for your organization. If you are building a team, this insight is
invaluable.
(Ref: Darrell Zahorsky, Your Guide to Small Business Information)
