Quiz: What type of entrepreneur are you?

When you were young, you wanted to be:
Princess Diana
Xena, Warrior Princess
Nancy Drew

Which of the following statements best describes your idea of a successful business?
An organisation that is forward thinking and not afraid to try new things.
An organisation that recognizes the importance of building up a strong relationship with the community.
An organisation that has established a stable flow of work processes, and all the employees and vendors are paid on time.

Your boss has asked you to organize the company’s Dinner & Dance. Your first step would most likely be:
Rallying up a “party committee” through a casual junk food get-together where you all brainstorm for theme ideas.
Creating a detailed timeline on an Excel spreadsheet and calling up potential vendors for quotes.
Proposing a charity auction to be held during the Dinner and Dance to raise funds for your favourite charity.

You meet someone for the first time. Your conversation with this new acquaintance will most likely be about:
How absolutely great you think the new application on your iPhone is and how he/she should get the software, or the phone for that matter!
How the new application on your iPhone allows you to leave the office 20 minutes earlier.
How the new application on your iPhone reduces paper consumption and the carbon footprint.

Which of the following work tasks would you most willingly do?
Organize a three-day team-bonding retreat in Bintan
Produce a 50-page orientation guide for new colleagues.
Participate in a corporate volunteer programme that requires you to go down to old folks homes or orphanages every Saturday afternoon for six months.

The first thing you do when you reach the office is most likely to be:
Tidy up your table, making a cup of coffee and creating a to-do list.
Read the newspapers.
Go around to every cubicle to greet everyone with a cheery “Good Morning!”

You are trying to convince a potential client to use your company’s services. Which is your most preferred method of persuasion?
Presenting tables and projection graphs that forecast an increase in profit and productivity if they choose to use your services.
Linking their requirements to a larger issue that the world is facing today so they can see the “big picture” benefits of using your services.
Introducing them to your enthusiastic team over a work lunch and sharing with them anecdotes of past successes.