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Entrepreneurship: 23 Questions

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1207024_background_greenThis intellectual and personality query poses 22 questions which are generally and specifically designed to measure competitiveness, self-reliance, patience, emotional stability, flexibility, objectivity, and other important entrepreneurial traits. Evaluate yourself ahead of time to better plan your career, careers and business fields that you will enter in the future or change course and tack now.

The following twenty two questions in this examination and interview are worked out to carefully evaluate your ability to work on your own, how competitive you are in your job and life while at the same time being able to work along and with others. You may be a “team worker”. You may be a very effective “lone wolf” personality, worker and employee. In additional there are guideposts to measure emotional stability, flexibility or stubborn rigid mindless as well as emotional and workplace situational objectivity and fairness in your mental traits and assessments of others.

When you are finished, total up your score to verify and count up just how you would rate and rank as a business owner. Give yourself 4 points for each response in the “A” category, 3 points for each in the “B’ category. 2 points for “C’s”‘ and only 1 point for those that fall into the dreaded D lineup.


1. I am ready to give up the security of working for someone else with the independence of running my own business, even if it means more work and less pay:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

2. I’m more decisive than most people I know, and I believe I am able to do whatever I put my mind to do:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

3. I have sharp and keen mind. : A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

4. In my previous jobs I’ve worked for long and extended hours, and if necessary I’m still willing to do the same:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

5. I am motivated to do the best in everything I do:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

6. I can handle chronic problems and obstacles without getting frustrated or losing my patience.

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

7. I like challenges and hate to feel like I’m wasting my time on routine tasks:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

8. I prefer competence over personality, and would rather work with a difficult person who’s competent than a person who’s very congenial but less competent:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

9. I’m more of a leader and more likely to organize a group than to follow the lead of others:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

10. I’m more at ease in making decisions and giving orders than having decisions made for me and taking orders:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

11. I’m good and disciplined and follow a strict timetable in order to complete tasks in time. : A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

12. I give importance to my employees’ well-being, but not at the expense of my business:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

13. Given reasonable odds, my efforts usually influence the outcome of an endeavor:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

14. My energy level is superior to other people. :

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

15. In a crisis, I’m able to retain my calm and composure and still do well. :

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

16. I do have patience and admit to myself when a situation is beyond my control:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

17. I love challenging tasks such as analyzing, attacking, and completing a complex task:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

18. I’ve often led and organized projects and groups:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

19. I can easily change course once I’ve started a project:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

20. It wouldn’t be happy to terminate an unproductive employee, but I’m capable of doing it if the situation calls for it:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

21. I’m adventurous and would like to experiment and try new things—from meeting new people to trying new activities:

A. strongly agree B. moderately agree C. moderately disagree D. strongly disagree

22. I’ve had a strong background and experience, either in business or as a hobby, in the field in which I plan to start a business.

A. more than 3 B. 1 to 3 C. between 6 months and 1 D. none

23. I’ve had the following business experience:

A. owned and managed my own business B. management-level experience (supervised others) C. employee-level experience (no supervisees) D. none

Add up your tally. If you score 70 to 80 then you are on the right track. With effort, focus and steady consistent work you are on the right path. Score 80 – 90 and you have entrepreneurs in your blood and makeup. You are destined to do exceptionally well in chosen fields, tasks and adventures in your business life.

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“Entering The World Of Innovation” — (It’s All About The Thinking)

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227087_paint_tubeThe world of innovation scares many people. Typically, these frightened people associate innovation with HUGE, risk-laden ideas that change things dramatically. To the contrary, “innovation” refers to change and to doing something new. Here, size does not matter. In fact, some very small changes create dramatic innovation.
MIND-BUILDING — Where, then, can your innovation work begin. Picture a body-building program, only this one is for the brain. You need strength, agility, flexibility, clarity, and simplicity. Strength manifests itself in conviction and the ability to persevere. Agility appears in your ability to visualize possibilities. Flexibility materializes in your challenging established rules. Clarity emerges when you try to share your changes with others. Simplicity springs from your desire to be understood and your belief in the changes you propose.

STARTING POINT — If your innovation skills are under-developed or flabby, start in the work environment where you are most comfortable. No need to try to lift 200-pounds in your first exercise. The least territorial environment is the processes within the business. People accept them as a matter of getting the work done. They feel no conviction about preserving any given process.

To begin your mind-building, list all of the processes that come to your mind. The first ones that come will be the ones you regularly use. Next, come the ones used by people who report to you. If you have official manuals which detail official processes, add these processes to your list. Finally, let your mind stretch to include processes that you know are being used in the business but are not necessarily official.

#1 REPETITIONS — Now the “reps” begin. Start with any category of processes. Look, first, for ones that can be retired. The first retirement is difficult because you have not done this for a long time, if ever. Each repetitive retirement becomes easier. What is happening is that, as you move through the list, you are developing retirement criteria. Every retirement is innovative. You have changed the environment.

At this point, you can involve others in verifying your retirement choices. If even one person wants a process to remain, it remains. What you are doing in this exercise is strengthening your connections to other potential innovators. As they detect your willingness to let go, they gain their own strength-to-participate. Again the environment changes.

#2 REPETITIONS —The second set of “reps” offers different challenges and opportunities. The people who worked with you on the “retirees” now become your exercise partners. They enhance your agility and flexibility. Ask them to review the processes in your list. Ask them to choose ones that they believe can be changed. Change takes many forms. People can identify other processes in your list that need to be retired. People can admit that they have found a better “unofficial” way to do an official process. People can venture into dangerous territory to suggest that a process needs to be changed dramatically. As you progress, observe how your ability to visualize possibilities and to accept the breaking of rules changes. You improve. Your exercise partners improve. Your business environment improves.

#3 REPETITIONS — The third set of “reps” offers hurdles to be overcome. Now, you need to work with your partners to develop the needed changes. Ask them to review processes related to their work. Ask them to identify anything that needs to be clarified. This clarification arises from comments such as, “We don’t really do it that way.” Then, ask how they suggest that the process be done. Integrate their thinking into your thinking about what changes need to be made.

Simplification, also a part of the third set, emerges from the need to examine impact. What does each change really mean for the business? What are the outcomes of the changes? More innovation? Savings of time? Reductions in required completion time? Empowered workers? An environment of trust? Ask your exercise partners to add to the list of outcomes they see and experience. As the list grows, the people involved engage in participation at a much greater level. They have grown beyond the need to protect themselves to an excitement about what can be done in moving forward. You created a world of innovation.

THE NEXT PHASES — When you feel that the current work with processes is finished, your brain-building moves to other areas of the business in search of innovation, of change, of the new. Depending on the extent of your brain building, you can continue to work inside the business. Look next, possibly, to practices that are not necessarily processes. These could be as simple as how we greet each other. These can be more complicated as to how we engage others in work outside their area of expertise. How do we leverage their knowledge, insight, and foresight?

Finally, you can look to internal policies. Start again with retirement. Work yourself through the brain-building. Assess the impact of each change. With your innovative, internal house-cleaning completed and your brain-building solidly implanted, you are now ready to enter the world of innovation beyond.

Virginia L. McBride, The Haven Maven Founder, EPROW Images Creator, “IT’S ALL ABOUT THE THINKING” Virginia builds personalized “thinking environments” to strengthen innovative thought. Working with EPROW Images, clients analyze processes, practices, policies for change potential. Analysis reveals innovation opportunities. To qualify for a free 30-minute consultation, submit a “pitch” through EPROW’s PAPPY program => http://www.eprowimages.com

Attention Spiritually Conscious Women: Has Financial Freedom Become Your Holy Grail?

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1194006_heart_shaped_leafOne of the first questions I ask spiritually conscious women who come to me interested in starting up a business is, “Why do you want to become a small business owner?”

You know what their number one reason is?

You may have guessed it: flexibility. What is their second most important reason for starting up a business? It’s to make money. Specifically, they want financial freedom.

This is a huge mistake. Starting up a business from the energetic place of wanting financial freedom means you don’t realize you already have it. It means that energetically you are holding the belief that financial freedom is something yet to be obtained. Energetically, this sets you up for a Holy Grail quest that could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars and decades of your life.

Let me break this to you gently, ladies.

Just as with the Holy Grail of Christian mythology, it isn’t whether the cup exists or not. It’s that the very act of looking for it means that belief is not strong enough for it to be seen.

The real quest when starting up a business is not the search for financial freedom. It’s the quest to discover the true Holy Grail for small business owners: the one thing that will attract all the money in the Universe so that it flows to you.

So, what is this Holy Grail? The secret to creating a flow of all the money you want is simple. You must fall passionately in love with a cause.

What kind of cause? The kind of cause that you are extremely passionate about nurturing and that will also greatly benefit and uplift the world. The key here is that it must be advantageous to all. Not just to you.


Five Steps to Putting Your Cause at the Center of Your Business

Step One: Take out a piece of paper and write this question at the top of the page: What cause or causes am I already passionate about?

Then start listing all the causes that bubble up from within you. Don’t think too hard about them. Just allow them to arise and be known.

Step Two: To the right of each of your causes, put a number between one and ten that indicates your degree of passion for each. One would be a cause you’re mildly excited about. Ten would be a cause you’re wildly passionate about.

Step Three: To the left of each cause, put a number between zero and ten that indicates your level of resistance to starting up a business with this cause at its core. Zero would be very little resistance. Ten would be a lot.

Step Four: Narrow down your list to the one main cause that is both high in passion and low in resistance. Ideally, you’re looking for a degree of passion of nine or ten and a resistance level of three or below. Circle the cause or causes that fall within these parameters.

If you have more than one cause circled, then take a moment to center yourself and feel into each cause. Listen inwardly for something that will make one cause stand out from the others.

Step Five: Draw a circle in the middle of your paper and place the number one cause at the center. Now draw spokes radiating outward from the core and brainstorm a list of products and services you are excited about offering that will tantalize all the money in the world toward your cause. Notice that I didn’t say, to you or to your business.

Your products and services are what will entice the flow of money to your cause, not your slick marketing strategy, fancy product packaging, or snazzy website. Yes, all those things are important. However, without your cause at the core of your business generating a magnetic vortex through which money flows, fancy product packaging and a snazzy website will not be enough.

The problem with talking about financial freedom is that many people believe having lots of money is the answer to all problems. If the spiritually conscious woman holds this belief when starting up a business, it actually can work against her. In fact, it can even lead to the downfall of her business.

To prevent that from happening, follow these five steps to take the focus off the quest for financial freedom and put it where it belongs: onto the passionate cause that needs to be at the center of your business. Allow your passion to attract all the money in the Universe and live the financial freedom that is already yours.

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