What Are the Most Underrated Skills for Startups?

In today’s world, if you want to be successful in business or as a business entrepreneur, there is certainly a continuous “evolutionary” process that we must all undertake.

In other words, there are entrepreneurial skills that we must each practice, learn and re-learn in order to thrive in today’s business world. As our business environment changes, we need to be able to adapt those skills to our surroundings or be left behind.

Here are the skills I could not have afforded to be without in my business startup :

People skills

It’s often said that no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the people business. How true that is! Whether dealing with customers, vendors, investors, the press, or employees, well-developed people skills can mean the difference between success and failure.

Avoid Fear of Failure

Remove fear rather than fearing mistakes to the point that you avoid decisions. This is a skill that is very difficult for some people to master.

More personal experience: Corporate Experience … 33 Business Lessons from 40 Years

Be disruptive and change the playing field

Don’t settle for the ordinary or the mundane, even if it means a little controversy…