Entrepreneur as Doer

Entrepreneurs are doers. They aren't people who like to take orders from others. They don't sit in their offices until their bosses come in and tell them what to do.

Take my friend, Jerry. He was a client of my market research business. Jerry had been the president of a small Wisconsin bank who was tired of having to do the bidding of people he thought didn't know what they were doing. So, fed up, he resigned and started a consulting firm to provide management consulting to banks. He rented an office, bought some furniture, and had a phone installed.

Monday morning, Jerry came into his new office, hung his coat on his new coat rack, and sat down on his new chair behind his new desk. Nothing happened. Jerry got up, went to the bathroom, and went over and looked out the window. Cars were driving by on the street. It was then Jerry said, "I realized I had to do something."

No one is going to tell you to do something. No one is going to run in and ask you for your help. It's all on you. You have to do something. And you have to figure it out yourself. Fortunately you can get a lot of help from people around you.

I think entrepreneurs need to pay attention to their style. But what do you think about this? If you have something substantive to add, post a comment.

This is some of the stuff that will go into my entrepreneurship course. The ideas in it supply the life's blood of my professional activities: teaching, writing, and real estate. For entrepreneurial real estate go to www.yourstopforrealestate.com/blog and for entrepreneurial writing to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot/com.