Startup Leadership: How Savvy Entrepreneurs Turn Their Ideas Into Successful Enterprises

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Creating a Personal Leadership Strategy

At this point you have a good picture of what it takes to be an entrepreneurial leader. You are capable of growing an idea into a self-sustaining enterprise once you master five skills: self-awareness, the basics of enterprises, relationship building, motivation, and change leadership. Understanding these five skills is the prerequisite for success once you have a strong motivation to take an idea and turn it into a value-producing and self-sustaining enterprise—the kind of motivation that won't fade when challenges and crises arise. It only remains for you to decide whether you really want to take an enterprise through each of the four stages of development from inception to self-sustaining value—and ...