AUTONOMY: as much as team work is important and
people should learn to delegate task and depend on one another as a team, the
early days of entrepreneurship cannot be taught this way. Independence is a
crucial attribute that must be adopted. An aspiring entrepreneur must be a go
getter. You must know how to do things on your own without being helped or pushed.
This must be taught and demonstrated.
FINANCIAL UNDERSTANDING: this is an important lesson
that has to be learnt by everyone. Be it an entrepreneur or not. You must be
willing to teach your team or anyone looking up to you the reality about resource
management and accountability. Lessons must be taught of savings, sacrifices,
how to calculate profit margins and so on.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING: show your team relationship
building and networking is important for entrepreneurs. They need to develop
the confidence to speak to people and they need to know how networking and
every relationship is important in business.
FAILURE LESSONS: people need to be taught failure is
allowed and failure isn’t a death sentence. The unwillingness to try again is
what really brings failure. Teach your team and everyone looking up to you that
giving up is not acceptable for successful people. Success only comes when you keep trying.
OPEN MINDS: entrepreneurs are dynamic people, they
are open minded and they are willing to adopt new measures. This is an
important lesson that has to be taught. Wanting to do the same things, the same
way forever would not bring about the change or innovation that leads to
growth.
These lessons are vital and they must be taught and
established in people if the future generation of entrepreneurs are going to be
informed and successful.