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Leadership As an Entrepreneur
How to Lead Yourself to Achieve Your Highest Potential
I had never before thought of myself as a leader, but once I came online in 2006 I realized that leadership as an entrepreneur is a requirement for success at any level. As an entrepreneur, you’re the boss, whether you’ve thought about it like that or not. It’s all down to you. What you buy, how you spend your time, when and where you work. If you’re an employee, then you rarely have control over any of these things, never mind all of them.
As the boss, you’re the leader. You decide the vision for your enterprise, whether it’s in the private or public sector, whether it’s a company or a charity. You decide the direction that everyone will go in, and the strategies for getting there. And you decide what resources will be necessary to support everything, no matter what it is.
Bigger organizations might have a board of directors. If you’re a solopreneur, then it’s likely to be just you, which makes your job as the boss all the more challenging. That’s because you really don’t have anyone you can talk to — to bounce ideas off of or to get advice.
If you work online, then it’s even more difficult because those who have offline businesses don’t understand what you have to do to have one online. Mention something as basic as an…
