Personality of an Entrepreneur 2012

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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 interms of behavior.

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TOP 12 ENTREPRENEURS OF THE

WORLD

Source FORBES LIST

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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

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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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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.

Rank 8 | John Mackey

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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

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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

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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


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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 businesspredominately 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

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Continued.

The Visionary: A business built by a visionary will oftenbe based on the future vision and thoughts of thefounder.

The Analyst: Runs a business as an Analyst, companyfocus in on fixing problems in a systematic way. Oftenthe basis for science, engineering or computer firms,analyst companies excel at problem solving.

The Fireball: A business owned and operated by afireball is full of life, energy and optimism.

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The Hero: Has an incredible will and ability to leadthe world and business through any challenge.

The Healer: A healer, provides nurturing andharmony to business. They have an uncanny abilityto survive and persist with an inner calm.

The Superstar: Here the business is centered on thecharisma and high energy of the superstarCEO/Founder.

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List of Some Indian Entrepreneurs

Dhirubhai Ambani

JRD Tata

Jamsetji Tata

Adi Godrej

Anil Ambani

Azim PremjiBhai Mohan Singh

B.M. Munjal

Ekta Kapoor

Ghanshyam Das Birla

Karsanbhai Patel

Kiran Mazumdar ShawK.P. Singh

Kumar Mangalam Birla

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Bibliography

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/dharavi-mumbai-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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