Leadership Attributes even for Employees

Entrepreneurial leaders have some specific leadership attributes. Entrepreneurial leadership is leadership that is based on the attitude that the leader is self-employed. Leaders of this type:

• take initiative and act as if they are playing a critical role in the organization rather than a mostly important one and energize their people,
• demonstrate entrepreneurial creativity, search continuously for new opportunities and pursue them,
• take risk, venture into new areas and provide strategic direction and inspiration to their people,
• take responsibility for the failures of their team, learn from these failures and use them as a step to ultimate success and strategic achievement.

Entrepreneurial leadership involves instilling the confidence to think, behave and act with entrepreneurship in the interests of fully realizing the intended purpose of the organization to the beneficial growth of all stakeholders involved.

Source: Vadim Kotelnikov