Molly Marshall's list of
entrepreneurial qualities:
- Welcome the nudge of the Spirit, who loves to subvert old patterns.
- Be receptive to the chaos that is inevitable when innovating.
- Learn to embrace calculated risk.
- Take responsibility if an experiment fails.
- Empower people to bring their best thinking and energy to a common goal.
- Search continuously for new opportunities.
- Steward resources wisely and trust there will be enough.
- Give back a sense of calm and stability in the vortex of change.
- Pay attention to personal resistance to change and the desire to repristinate the past.
- Remain hopeful in the midst of unknowing, and walk by faith.
- Carry a disposition of “why not?” rather than “why it won’t work.
- Cultivate a life of prayer, and become ever more deeply rooted in faith.
- Seek wise counsel. An isolated leader cannot impose vision; rather, vision arises out of thoughtful collaboration. Leadership entails being a “keeper” of the vision, however.
- Find or construct a supportive professional network that can offer forthright perspective.
- Focus on performance objectives that align with values and vision of the initiative
- Understand critical tasks unique to discrete positions and require accountability for their accomplishment
- Continue to practice discernment about strategic direction.
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