My friend Rhonda Abrams has a new feature at USA Today. She will be offering a six week series of free on-line articles for aspiring entrepreneurs called "Six Steps to a Successful Small Business."
In her first article, she highlights how to think like an entrepreneur:
In her first article, she highlights how to think like an entrepreneur:
Someone who needs an extremely high level of security might be challenged by an entrepreneurial lifestyle, yet a lot of people who don't think of themselves as embracing risk become entrepreneurs. The key is that although a successful entrepreneur takes risks, those risks are measured. Though entrepreneurs frequently go out on limbs, the ones that make it generally test that limb first to make sure it has a good chance of bearing their weight.
Her series will help aspiring entrepreneurs, even those of you who are accidental entrepreneurs due to the on-going recession, to navigate the start-up process with a little more confidence and understanding of the journey they are facing.
I believe that all successful entrepreneurs possess one fundamental ability, quality, skill and that is Entrepreneurs possess the ability to perceive the world as a system, whereas all great entrepreneurs are system thinkers, creating systems that allow the Business to run itself on autopilot and are operated by other people, the entrepreneurs attend to the system every now and then diversifying on other sources of income.