Recent Forbes articles have offered ample discussion of the traits of a successful early stage company, but today I’d like to take a closer look at the personality strengths of the actual entrepreneur. I’ve often wondered if some personality types are better suited than others. I would maintain a definite “yes.”
Gallup Chairman and CEO Jim Clifton’s book, The Coming Jobs War, has a description for entrepreneurship—he calls it the “scarcest, rarest, hardest energy and talent in the world to find.” Forbes Contributor Dan Schwabel interviewed Jim Clifton in Oct. 2011 here. Aside from age (we’ve been talking about that quite a bit lately), educational background, and number of prior companies, successful entrepreneurs are ones who’ve learned or developed a very specific set of functional traits, Clifton maintains.
To read the original article: Gallup Research: The 10 Functional Demands Of Successful Entrepreneurs - Forbes
