Entreprenenant ledelsestalent: en empirisk undersøgelse af nøglefaktorer

An academic curiosity to investigate talent and enlighten talent development on entrepreneurial leaders caused an empirical survey in 2012 on 55 entrepreneurs and their innate talent as well as their learned talent. The talent and especially the talent development appeared to be tightly connected to the individual entrepreneur’s professional possibilities to achieve success in the entrepreneurial field.
In addition, the survey outlines that the talent development on entrepreneurial leadership progress over time from surrounding problem solving connected to the entrepreneur’s individual enterprise niche towards a more general and overall attitude in which the entrepreneurs demonstrate increased leadership skills. Furthermore, the role models and the life events of the entrepreneurs turned out to be devastating important to understand how the entrepreneurial leader performs. By analyzing the research results, the key factors to successful talent developing were outlined: First key factor is the time used with passion in active and natural environment on the topic. Second, the talent has to be spotted in a very early age in matter to develop to its full potential. And third, there is need of distinction between the psychological variable and the invariable personality elements to understand, interpret and assist with talent development.