Scientists, business people, managers and entrepreneurs always want to know what is the perfect person to manage and growth the business. What is the skills that make one person perfect? What is a habits of that perfect person? How they think, breath, and what they eat? How much they stay on work? How to be perfect person that will bring business growth? All of this questions was asked and analyzed long time before. There is too many research conducted that want to find characteristics of that perfect guy. We know that also Frederick Taylor (1856–1915) have conducted experiments to find person that will accomplish more job for short time.
But, this is a not simple task to find the perfect person. There are different businesses that were started from different entrepreneurs and that was really successful and between that entrepreneurs cannot be finding the same characteristics. Maybe the task is more difficult because there don’t exist a perfect person. We all have a deficiency of something. I agree with Ichak Adizes about his theory that there don’t exist perfect manager, perfect leader, perfect innovator or perfect employee. He talks about the complementary team that will accomplish a perfect job. In that team, all deficiencies to one person are complementing with skills of another person.
Even I agree about complementary teams, I read one interesting post about Skills of Innovators On the Harvard Business Review Blog as a part of Creativity at Work Special Package. This post is about findings of six-year study surveying 3,000 creative executives and conducting additional 500 individual interviews to find skills that distinguish successful innovators. The 5 skills that were discovered from research are:
- Associating
- Questioning
- Ability to closely observe details
- Ability to Experimenting
- Networking
I think that really these skills make a big difference between successful managers and entrepreneurs and average managers and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are people who innovate, and they have very close relation with innovation. Because of that these 5 skills are important also for entrepreneurs. I want to add two more skills that I think are important for successful entrepreneurs:
- Ability to recognize possibilities. Recognize possibilities is one important task for every entrepreneur. Their businesses were started on the discovered possibility. With this skill, they will continuously grow their business.
- Ability to have more than one solution for the same problem. This skill is something that has been potential quickly to improve some possible errors from one solution. If one solution doesn’t give the results another will be here to replace the first.
Skills are something that increases business potential energy, and they are one of ten most important basic business elements. But, other characteristics of skills are that they can be loosed in some future period of time.
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