Entrepreneurs personality - Management
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Every once in a while I come across a blog post that so totally nails something and I am reminded why professionals blogging about their craft is such an important development in the world of media. Yesterday Ben Horowitz posted about the psychology of being CEO . He starts with this observation: very few people talk about it, and I have never read anything on the topic.
A VC: Ben Horowitz On The Psychology Of Being CEO
People who can’t manage their own lives don’t make good entrepreneurs. Small businesses require multi-tasking, work prioritization, and decision-making, with no entourage of assistants and specialists. That’s why Fortune 500 executives usually don’t survive as startup CEOs. First you have to learn to accept total responsibility for things that happen to your business, just like you are responsible for everything in your personal life.
Entrepreneurs, Manage Yourself, Then Your Startup | Hot Sauce!
How to temper entrepreneur passion with reality - National Startup Business | Examiner.com
Startup Business Examiner Martin Zwilling is the Founder and CEO of Startup Professionals, a company that provides products and services to startup founders and small business owners. He writes a daily blog for entrepreneurs, and is also a regular contributor to Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, and...
This is one of the must-read pieces of advice about being a startup entrepreneur, and something I share frequently with friends and people I’m advising. Being an entrepreneur is hard, you won’t always feel like you can conquer the world, but don’t worry, you’re not alone: Marc Andreessen wrote: First and foremost, a start-up puts you on an emotional rollercoaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You flip rapidly from day-to-day – one where you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over and over and over.
The emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship « Scott Allison's Blog
If you are going to be a real entrepreneur, it’s important that you know yourself well. After all, you won’t have a direct manager charged with giving you feedback, and your direct reports probably will be afraid to tell you what they really think. In any case, your skills, talent, knowledge, personality, and strengths are your best assets as an entrepreneur. I’ve extracted many of the following points about knowing yourself from a book aimed at women professionals, called “ Career GPS ”, by Ella L.
Entrepreneurs Need to Recognize Their Limitations | Hot Sauce!
What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology.
“It’s fucked up when your mind’s playin’ tricks on ya” —The Geto Boys By far the most difficult skill for me to learn as CEO was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check.