The Business Insights Blog from OneCoach:
What is the single most important characteristic of successful entrepreneurs? And if you had one question to ask an entrepreneur that would uncover that characteristic, what would you ask?
The most important characteristic of successful entrepreneurs, I believe, is integrity.
There are countless definitions of what, who and how are entrepreneurs. There are countless definitions of the meaning of ’success.’ And there are countless traits and characteristics of successful entrepreneurship and successful leaders.
Much of this data is myth and folklore, and some of it is derived from decades of academic research, which has yet to be definitive. Moreover, success is interdependent with time, and a key test of success is, does it withstand the sands of time?
Are we asking about entrepreneurs who lead an organization for 30 years, or serial entrepreneurs who start them up? The arena of entrepreneurship is fraught with complexity and definitional variability. But there is one least common denominator. An entrepreneur must lead, through good times and bad, and through the stages and travails of personal and organizational transformation.
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