{"id":4235,"date":"2012-08-28T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:39:22","slug":"is-entrepreneurship-in-your-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/blog\/is-entrepreneurship-in-your-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Is entrepreneurship in your DNA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jean Chow, Business Coach &amp; Strategist, Toronto, ON, CYBF Mentor, <a href=\"mailto:info@msbizwiz.com\">info@msbizwiz.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can entrepreneurship be learned and is it the same as leadership and sales-(wo)-manship? Is it a skill that can be improved, or is it that bit of \u201cmagic\u201d that\u2019s hard-wired in your DNA? What separates the highly qualified CEOs, doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers, and yes, entrepreneurs from the ones who leave you shaking your head in shock and awe?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly we can learn the ins and outs of entrepreneurship; universities now offer \u2018Entrepreneurship\u2019 as an option like Accounting, Finance, Marketing, and Strategy, when studying for a Business degree. But have you ever considered evaluating your entrepreneurial potential?<\/p>\n<p>Why not start by taking a self-evaluation questionnaire online; Google search \u201cAre you an entrepreneur?\u201d or try the Business Development Bank of Canada\u2019s excellent resource <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdc.ca\/EN\/advice_centre\/benchmarking_tools\/Pages\/entrepreneurial_self_assessment.aspx#.UDd8w6OWxfw\">using this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, have a look at Harvard Business School\u2019s Working Knowledge series, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/2978.html\">A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs<\/a>\u201d by Walter Kuemmerle, a HBS professor who has studied more than fifty start-ups in 20 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Results from any quiz or test won\u2019t guarantee a 100 percent success rate for being the next Mark Zuckerberg however, you can be sure that a bit of \u201cmagic\u201d in your DNA will come in handy when all you have is hope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can entrepreneurship be learned and is it the same as leadership and sales-(wo)-manship?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}