WHAT IT TAKES
Be Excellent blog (great blog: very consistent message, well-written, good links) offers a post on Small Business Success: What It Takes. It's based on a post from Dave Lorenzo that lists core competencies required to be successful in starting (and running) a successful small business...
Skip Reardon/Be Excellent refers to them as personality traits. Among them are:
- Willingness to Sacrifice
- Service Orientation
- Leadership Ability
- Business Intelligence and Creativity
- Management Ability and Organization
- Optimism
- Persistence
- Competitive Nature
- Sales Orientation
- Confidence
Skip goes on to offer a bottomline and a bit of relief for me:
If one or more of these traits is not second nature to you, don’t fret...We’ll talk about ways to leverage your current skills, knowledge and experience to make up for a lack of strength.
Whew. Hope's on the horizon!
WHY
Seth Godin asks So, What's Wrong with Small Business and answers it with this:
The more I see both, the happier it appears that small business people are. They often make more money, take fewer risks, sleep better and build something for the ages, something they believe in and can polish and be proud of.
If you have what it takes, the rewards can be very acceptable. And if you don't, well then you have people like Skip Reardon/Be Excellent and Seth and John Jantsch and his merry band of bloggers...and WOMMA and Customer Evangelists and...Mike Sansone...Debbie Weil , among thousands of bloggers who can bring you the skills and the resources you may lack or perceive yourself to lack.
So, what are you waiting on?
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