PERSONALITY OF AN ENTREPRENEUR

Anuradha .N. Kumar , Roll No-5 , MMS SEM IV S.V.I.M.S

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What is Personality???...
Personality is not related to bodily structure alone. It includes both structure and dynamics. Personality is neither good nor bad. Every personality is unique. Personality refers to persistent qualities of the individual. It expresses consistency and regularity. Personality is acquired. Personality is influenced by social interaction. It is defined in terms of behavior.

TOP 12 ENTREPRENEURS OF THE WORLD

Source FORBES LIST

Rank 1 | Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was the co-founder of Apple, the maker of the Mac, iPhone and iPad, among other revolutionary products.
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Rank 2 | Bill Gates

Gates is the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft and is consistently ranked among the world's richest people. He is also the co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Rank 3 | Fred Smith

Smith is the founder and chief executive of FedEx, a global courier delivery service headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Rank 4 | Jeff Bezos

Bezos is the founder and CEO of online company Amazon.com, the largest retailer on the Internet. He was also the Time Person of the Year in 1999.
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Rank 5 | Larry Page and Sergey Brin They are the founders of search engine giant Google, a company they set up while attending Stanford University. Page is now the chief executive o f the company, while Brin handles special projects.
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Rank 6 | Howard Schultz Schultz is the chairman and chief executive of Starbucks, the world's largest coffee chain, which has over 20,000 stores in 61 countries.
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Rank 7 | Mark Zuckerberg Zuckerberg is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive of social networking site Facebook. The company began trading on the Nasdaq in May this year.
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Rank 8 | John Mackey

Mackey is the co-founder of Whole Foods Market, a food supermarket chain based in Texas, and also one of the most influential advocates in the movement for organic food.
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Rank 9 | Herb Kelleher Kelleher is the co-founder and former chief executive of Southwest Airlines, the largest low-cost carrier in the United States.
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Rank 10 | N.R. Narayana Murthy

Murthy is one of the seven co-founders of Infosys, and served as the CEO of the company from 1981 to 2002, and then as chairman till 2011. He is now chairman-emeritus.
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Rank 11 | Sam Walton Walton was the founder of Walmart, one of the world's largest department stores. The company is the world's third largest firm by revenue, behind Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell.
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Rank 12 | Muhammad Yunus Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The concepts of microfinance and microcredit, which are now shaping lives in over 100 countries, are his brainchild.
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DHARAVI : THE SHADOW CITY

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DHARAVIs Industrial District

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At a laundry pool grimy with sewer runoff, laborers from the state of Andhra Pradesh make ten cents per piece of clothing.

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A potter's son surveys a yard paved with drying clay bowls, the traditional work of the Kumbhar caste, who set up their communal clay pits and kilns in the 1930s.

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The chance to earn a few dollars a day-and save for family and future-draws laborers from across India to Dharavi, whose off-the-books, largely unregulated industries annually churn out some 500 million dollars' worth of goods. In the Kalyanwadi tanning district, workers handle dry cowhides that will end up as purses and jackets stitched with fake designer labels.

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The old becomes new in the hands of laborers, who repair used cooking oil cans for resale inside a steamy warehouse. Dharavi specializes in recycling plastics and other trash. The lucrative business is run by Muslims, about a third of the slum's population.

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Nine Personality Types of Entrepreneurs

The Improver: is one who operates business predominately in the improver mode, are focused on using company as means to improve the world. The Advisor: This business personality type will provide an extremely high level of assistance and advice to customers. The Artist: This business personality is the reserved but a highly creative type. As an artist type tends to build business around the unique talents and creativities that 23 he has.

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The Visionary: A business built by a visionary will often be based on the future vision and thoughts of the founder. The Analyst: Runs a business as an Analyst, company focus in on fixing problems in a systematic way. Often the basis for science, engineering or computer firms, analyst companies excel at problem solving. The Fireball: A business owned and operated by a fireball is full of life, energy and optimism.
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The Hero: Has an incredible will and ability to lead the world and business through any challenge. The Healer: A healer, provides nurturing and harmony to business. They have an uncanny ability to survive and persist with an inner calm. The Superstar: Here the business is centered on the charisma and high energy of the superstar CEO/Founder.
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List of Some Indian Entrepreneurs

Dhirubhai Ambani JRD Tata Jamsetji Tata Adi Godrej Anil Ambani Azim Premji Bhai Mohan Singh B.M. Munjal Ekta Kapoor Ghanshyam Das Birla Karsanbhai Patel Kiran Mazumdar Shaw K.P. Singh Kumar Mangalam Birla

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Bibliography
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/dharavimumbai-slum/jonas-bendiksen-photography Forbes Website

Charantimath P.M., (2008), Entrepreneurship Development & Small Business Enterprise, Third Edition, Pearson Education, New Delhi. To know more about Indian Entrepreneurs you can also refer : http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/narayana-murthy.html
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