Do Successful Women Entrepreneurs Share Certain Characteristics?
Through my experience with accomplished women business owners, I have observed that those who are most successful share some common personal characteristics. Scholarly research in the area of female entrepreneurship validates many of my observations. Researchers have known since the 1970s that female entrepreneurs are motivated by a desire for independence, job satisfaction, economics and a need to achieve (Schwartz, 1976). The following characteristics are typical and support the motivations of successful women business owners. They Make Things Happen Highly successful women business owners will tell you that they see themselves as being in charge of their own destiny. Things do not happen to them-instead they make things happen. These women are take-charge types who not only take responsibility for themselves but for others as well. You will not see these women “passing the buck;” almost universally, they share the attitude that “the buck stops with them.” In her book, Women and the
