Are You An Entrepreneur?

I'm reading Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker

In the book Drucker explores Entrepreneurship and states what it is. Up until now I have always thought of Entrepreneurship as a personality trait. He says it is not!

From the book...

Entrepreneurship is thus a distinct feature whether of an individual or of an institution. It is not a personality trait; in thirty years I have seen people of the most diverse personalities and temperaments perform well in entrepreneurial challenges. To be sure, people who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs. But such people are unlikely do well in a host of other activities as well...

...decision have to made, and the essence of any decision is uncertainty.

But everyone who can face up to decision making can learn to be an entrepreneur and to behave entrepreneurially. Entrepreneurship, then, is behavior rather than personality trait. And its foundation lies in concept and theory rather than in intuition.

According to Drucker I'm an Entrepreneur. I knew that before reading this but I had the "concept and theory" wrong about Entrepreneurship.

This is a highly enjoyable book and I look forward to learn more and finish reading it. I've been wanting to read Drucker for a long time but for some reason I just had not made it a priority. I'm on it now!

More to come...