APPENDIX B

The Five Essential Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills

Self-awareness: You must understand your motivations well enough that you understand what drives you to act. You must understand your traits and skills so that you can realistically understand your strengths and weaknesses and what you can realistically contribute to your enterprise. You must understand what skills you need to acquire—either on your own or by working with others.

Enterprise basics: You must understand the basics of how enterprises operate—through projects, processes, and culture—and how enterprises mature—through four stages from inception to sustained value—in order to understand what your enterprise and all its stakeholders expect from you.

Relationship building: ...

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