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Source: iEco – Clarín.com
Few entrepreneurs launch businesses without prior experience in dependency ratio. A Harvard research suggests that the likelihood of trying to resign with a personal project depends on the characteristics of his colleagues in office
By MATERIABIZ | redaccion@materiabiz.com
Several studies about entrepreneurship indicate that entrepreneurship in the likelihood that a person waives his job to try with a personal project depends on their degree of tolerance for corporate bureaucracy and its desire for independence.
Now, a research from Harvard Business School suggests considering a new factor: the influence of colleagues.
Indeed, while most colleagues in office have proved lucky, someday, with a personal project, the more likely you decided to forgo the convenience of suffocating corporate offices to venture into the uncertain world of entrepreneurs.
Basically, warns research at Harvard, the influence comes through on two factors:
1- The flow of information and resources
The networks of contacts are crucial in the movement of resources and information. So if you have colleagues with experience as entrepreneurs, you'll probably have a number of key resources to launch your own business.
His colleagues can advise you (albeit informally, during lunch time) on how to start a project and may even offer their own contacts to help in the early days
2- Influence on decisions
Colleagues experienced entrepreneurs also play an important role in the demystification of many erroneous beliefs about entrepreneurship that often tarnish the cost-benefit assessments.
For someone used to working in dependency ratio, the universe of the entrepreneur may seem a risky jungle.
Thus, prejudices lead to an overestimation of the risks and a decision biased towards remaining in the company.
Therefore, the daily contact with a colleague who has been in the "jungle" serves to demolish prejudices and make a more impartial assessment of the costs and benefits.
But of course, one wonders: "if this former entrepreneur now works in dependency ratio, means that he hasn’t done well with its project. So, how could exert a positive influence for another try what?"
While critics seem reasonable, empirical data also indicate that attempts to entrepreneurship remain highest among persons with colleagues who have been entrepreneurs.
And the fact that a person has failed in a personal endeavor, does not necessarily mean that he regrests for having tried.
It is possible that he wants to encourage a colleague who is considering follow the same path.
Alicia Díaz
ALD Group - Virtual Assistance
www.aldgroup.com.ar/en
adiaz@aldgroup.com.ar
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