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What it takes to Be an Entrepreneur?

In today’s changing world, entrepreneurship has not only become a necessity but also a desire for many. More and more people take advantage of the means that technology places in our hands in order put new ideas in motion, sometimes with stunning success. No doubt, the success of a handful of young entrepreneurs motivates even more, especially young people to try to implement even the most exotic ideas. The future of entrepreneurship therefore seems to be bright. But what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and which are the right ingredients of success still remains an issue.   Almost every time a new idea becomes a visible success, there is a widespread questioning of how it could be that nobody had seen it before. Great ideas seem to solve really simple problems, problems on which all of us bump on every single day. The real problem therefore seems to be that the very identification of a simple problem seems really problematic in itself! And this is so simply because most o

Should a CEO Be a Prophet or a Barbarian?

Organizational leaders need to play a number of different roles, depending on their level in the organization as well as on the functional area that they lead. All those roles are required for an organization to function properly. However, not all of them can be played by a single individual, since they are simply conflicting. There are quite a few different approaches towards the definition of those roles which, in one way or another, point towards four major archetypes, namely, the producer, the administrator, the entrepreneur and the integrator.   Two of the most prominent roles that the CEO of an organization needs to play are the entrepreneurial and the integrator ones. The integrator role keeps the organization together. It acts as the social glue. It is this role that inspires people and keeps them committed to achieving the purpose of the organization. On the other hand, the entrepreneurial role is visionary. It defines the organizational purpose and shows the way to servin