Sunday, August 9, 2009

The Entrepreneur in Me...

We have been endowed with three distinct personalities namely, the Technician, the Manager, and the Entrepreneur.

Being a Technician, we have the skills particular to us that may give us the advantage with the others. Dedication is ever present because we know that we are doing something that is for us. The skills we have tell us and anybody that we have the knowhow in that particular field and therefore giving ourselves the advantage towards others. And because we do this for ourselves, our loyalty towards our own is very high.

On the other hand, because it is only us who is doing everything due to the skills, talents, knowhow, and loyalty we have, we turn to fall into the weaknesses of being burned-out, low trust, no delegation, and just work one is to one (with ourselves).

These weaknesses are the ones being addressed by our Manager personality. Having the characteristics of doing things in order, being organize, has a system in place, high trust and self-esteem towards others, giving them the experience of being delegated covers all the weaknesses of our Technician personality. The problem on the other hand is that when the manager becomes too comfortable with the system, there is a tendency to resist change even if it is for the benefit of the company or individual.

This weakness of falling in love with the system is but natural to most managers seeing that everything falls into its right perspective. But if the Entrepreneurial personality comes into the picture, there will always be something that can be seen, something that can be considered, for the betterment of the company. This usually comes because of the Entrepreneur’s visionary characteristic, seeing things that might be considered, something that can be considered an innovation, and something that can be considered for change.