Entrepreneur Redefined

Back on February 3, 2009, I defined an entrepreneur as "a person who undertakes an enterprise in an atmosphere of uncertainty and risk."

So let's take this person out and substitute for it "leader," thus we get "An entrepreneur is a leader who undertakes an enterprise in an atmosphere of uncertainty and risk." Substitution is a useful concept in math, and language is susceptible to mathematics. Calling the person a leader actually improves the definition.

The second important word in the definition is "undertakes." We're going to unpack this work a bit as we continue to parse this definition of an entrepreneur.

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.