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Important Characteristics Every Business Owner Should Have

Strategy Driven

There are certain traits that every entrepreneur in the world has. A great entrepreneur is someone who can manage their time and their workload. Intelligence doesn’t always mean that you are academic or that you have loads of qualifications. In fact, intelligence has little to do with degrees. That is not true.

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The Best Managers Are Boring Managers

Harvard Business Review

They are, in fact, the reverse of the famous self-made billionaires and tycoon entrepreneurs we often use as examples of great leaders. As Michael Maccoby pointed out in an influential HBR essay, these entrepreneurial leaders “tend to be poor listeners who are sensitive to criticism and demonstrate low levels of emotional intelligence.”

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Why Great Success Can Bring Out the Worst Parts of Our Personalities

Harvard Business Review

” Of course, there is a long history of successful entrepreneurs, industrialists, and self-made billionaires who stood out equally for their talents and achievements and their eccentric, difficult, or volatile personalities. Steve Jobs was known for berating employees and suppliers in unprintable language.