Entrepreneurial Leadership

No matter what type of entrepreneur you are, as an entrepreneur, you are a leader. As a leader, your job is to lead.

Wikipedia has this definition: "The ability to affect human behavior...to accomplish a mission designated by the leader." Go to the article on "Leadership" and read it and follow it's links. There are a lot of good things in there.

Modifying slightly the words of Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan, in The Entrepreneurial Mindset; Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000, p. 305),

You need to ...[be] consistent, predictable, and focused, and you [need to] sustain this emphasis over a long period. Pressure applied only once is soon forgotten, and alternating pressure (as in flavor-of-the-month management) will cause people to be confused, disillusioned, or angry...As the leader,...[your] most important job...[is] to keep people focused.

Read this book, it will return many good things to you.

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This is 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.