Re-redefinition of an Entrepreneur

We got ahead of ourselves talking about organizational trust. Let's backtrack and stick with the entrepreneur for a little while longer before going on to talk about entrepreneurial organizations.

First we defined an "entrepreneur" as an "individual who undertook an enterprise within an atmosphere of uncertainty and risk."

After reviewing John C. Maxwell's 21 laws of leadership we re-conceptualized the individual as a "leader" and defined "entrepreneur" as "a leader who undertakes an enterprise within an atmosphere of uncertainty and risk."

Then, after reviewing Covey's ideas on trust, we've further extended our concept of the entrepreneur to be a "trusted leader." So let's define an "entrepreneur" as: "A trusted leader who undertakes an enterprise within an atmosphere of uncertainty and risk."

We'll talk more about the entrepreneur before we get to talking about the enterprise he or she undertakes.

My goal here is to help entrepreneurs climb all the way to the top. How am I doing?

Entrepreneurship is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my connection strategy.

It makes Sherpa Real Estate , my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my Sherpa Literary. Go to www.timswritingblog.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and publishing and read my mystery for free at wwww.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it out.

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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.