Rate Your Entrepreneurial Readiness

Under each character train, circle the phrase that best describes you. Be honest. This self-evaluation is for your personal use only. There is no need to show your results to anyone unless you choose to do so.

Seeks additional tasks; highly ingenious	Resourceful: continually alert to opportunities	Performs work without waiting for directions	Performs work when given directions
Positive, friendly, interested in people	Pleasant, polite	Sometimes difficult to work with	Inclined to be quarrelsome or uncooperative
Seeks and welcomes responsibility	Accepts responsibility without protest	Unwilling to assume responsibility without protest	Avoids responsibility whenever possible
Highly capable of logical organization	Able organizer	Fairly capable of organizing	Poor organizer
Industrious, capable of working hard for long hours	Can work hard, but not for too long a period	Fairly industrious	Avoids hard work
Makes quick and accurate decisions	Makes good and careful decisions	Makes quick but often unsound decisions	Makes hesitant and fearful decisions
Courageous, straight-shooting sincerity	On the level	Fairly sincere	Inclined to lack sincerity
Highly steadfast in purpose; rarely discouraged	Effort is steadily maintained	Average determination and persistence	Little or no persistence
Highly energetic at all time	Energetic most of the time	Fairly energetic	Only occasionally energetic

The more circles you see to the left of the page, the more character traits you share with successful entrepreneurs. The value of this exercise is more to make you aware of your personal strengths and weaknesses rather than to persuade or dissuade you from pursuing your entrepreneurial interests. Be honest with yourself as you make the decision to go into business. If most of your circles are on the right of the page, it is unlikely that you will be happy in the long run with the demands that entrepreneurship will place on you.

Adapted from Entrepreneurship and Venture Management Text and Cases by Kenneth W. Olm and George C. Eddy