1. OPEN RISK TAKER
Someone entrepreneurs should have certain qualities that enable them to
succeed in their respective fields. Feature willing to take the risk that there
is a feature in itself Datuk Dr. Azlina Che Abdullah. He was a leader in the
health and beauty products company believed that D'Navechee Beauty (M) Sdn. Bhd
respected and became an icon for young people to young people who want and a
new field of business.
During
almost 10 years in the field of business and various successes achieved today
also put his name among millionaires homeland. At the beginning of his career, numerous challenges
encountered by him. However, facing the allegations he had made Datuk Dr.
Azalina more mature and wise in seizing opportunities. He is also said to be
willing to take a risk by mortgaging everything he had. For example, he has
sold the assets available for the company to quickly despite the economic
downturn.
Next,
type of her business is marketing or distribution of beauty and health product
based on natural ingredients, to provide beauty and health treatments and
provide training center beauty and entrepreneurship. Datuk Dr. Azalina also
received awards such as Winner Categories Professional / Services
(Health & Beauty) 2007 organized by the Council of Rural Industries & MECD and the latest achievement is December 24,
2010, D'Navechee been approved by the franchisor licenses Ministry of health
care products and beauty cosmetics and dietary supplements offers and SPA
beauty.
An entrepreneur needs to go through various challenges and risks of its own
to achieve success starting and endeavor. According to Datuk Dr. Azlina Che
Abdullah, her intention to start a business in the current economic downturn,
may be considered unwise actions. Although, she realized the risk of the
decision taken to start a business at the time of the financial crisis. The
passion that is inside Datuk Dr. Azalina make her now able to stand tall
alongside other cosmetic millionaire.
Therefore, it is clear that the success achieved by
entrepreneurs at this moment does not come so soon. Most of them had to deal
with challenges that may affect their future. However, armed with the
experience, knowledge, and drive to succeed, she can become a respected figure
but never received an honorary award from the Sultan or King in their
respective states.
2. NETWORKED
The
success achieved by an entrepreneur is not easy and takes place without help
from others. A successful entrepreneur must be wise in choosing individuals who
not only can help their business at this time, but also has the potential to
help them in the future. Tan Sri Dato 'Sri Tony Fernandes was the CEO of the
Low Cost Airline respected in Malaysia, Air Asia.
He is not alone in its
success because he is assisted by his good friend, Datuk Kamarudin Meranum. He
expressed the desire that he wanted to become an entrepreneur and set up the
airline to his good friend after interested in advertising a low-cost airline,
Easyjet. Attracted by the plan, the two good friends that have agreed to
withdraw their savings and managed to collect RM1 million to be used as
capital.
In addition, Tan Sri Dato
'Sri Dr. Tony Fernandes is also asking for help from Datuk Pahamin Abdul Rajab
to get a license to fly. He also brought Tony Fernandes met Tun Dr. Mahathir
Mohamad, who was prime minister at the time. The results of the meeting, the
airline managed to obtain a license. Services Datuk Pahamin so great in
pertinent dream come true, he was invited Datuk Pahamin to be his partner. The
cooperation shown by Tony Fernandes and partners that made them successful take
over the airline, Air Asia Bhd. Then the company has applied to become a
low-cost airline which is currently popular in Malaysia.
Therefore, it is clear
that the success of an entrepreneur is unlikely to be achieved without the help
of other parties. Through the cooperation of both parties, of course, can be
shared and solved problems together. For example, the situation experienced by
Tony Fernandes success achieved by him now is his hard-earned with his good friend.
Without such assistance, he may not be able to stand with successful
entrepreneurs nowadays.
3. FAILURE IS AN OPTION
Successful entrepreneurs often not easy to get
frustrated, desperate and sad failure. This is because they learn from failure.
In difficult times, they are still looking for opportunities. Most
entrepreneurs believe that they are more failure than success of
learning-below.
As
entrepreneurs, they do not run the risk of failure in business. An entrepreneur
who has an open mind and are motivated, they will assume faced failure in
business is as a challenge to continue to progress and succeed in business.
This means that they will learn from their failures by making changes to get up
from the stretcher failure. This failure is said to be a risk to be faced by
entrepreneurs to succeed.
For
example, Thomas Edison was an American entrepreneur and designer who developed
many devices that greatly influenced life around the world. Thomas Edison
called "The Intelligent" of a journalist, he is a designer who uses
the earliest large-scale production for process design. Thomas Edison has been
considered as one of the designers of the most influential in the history of
creation.
Thomas Edison was the
inventor of the light. At the beginning of the creation of the light bulb, he
failed to get the loan money because people assume that creation is quite
impossible to succeed.
After
getting a loan, Thomas tried to create a light bulb. His tried always failed up
to a hundred times. However, this situation is not deterred and does not
consider himself a failure. Thomas Edison continues to successfully invented
the light bulb in tried that to a thousand.
Therefore,
it is clear that failure is not the main obstacle to entrepreneurs because they
focus on their goals for success. Failure is only for entrepreneurs who choose
to fail and not the main cause of their business cannot grow and prosper.
4. OBSERVANT
Successful
entrepreneurs possess a careful observer of the situation around. Through
observation, entrepreneurs can generate ideas for raising more of a product or
service that is analyzed in detail to ensure that goods and services can be
used for the long term.
Smart entrepreneurs in observing
things, can trigger a variety of ideas to develop the products it manufactured.
Dato 'Haji Ramly bin Mokni is a successful entrepreneur who acquired the idea
through observation and he is also the founder of Ramly Burger is now hot on
the market. He has several times won the best entrepreneurs and now he has his
own company as Ramly Food Processing Sdn. Bhd. Ramly Mokni Marketing Sdn. Bhd,
Ramly Supermarket SDH. Bhd and several others. Among the items removed is
chicken and beef burgers, chicken and beef frankfurters, nuggets, and more.
The idea was sparked when he was
working as a butcher at the supermarket in early 1970. He began making
observations of meat and frozen goods produced in the supermarket erratic and
illegal halal products. From there he got the idea to produce halal frozen
goods to Muslims. He is also wise to take the opportunities that exist and have
creative ideas to produce packaging burger packs that can be of interest to
many people these days to buy it. Now, the Ramly Burger warm in local and
international markets.
As a result, the entrepreneur is a
person who has an edge even as observers, they can generate ideas that bring
benefits to themselves and society. Entrepreneurs with an eye also will always
stay ahead. Therefore, the entrepreneur must have a clear and careful
observation to see the environment in the present and future expectations in
order to generate new ideas for creative and innovative.
5. VISIONARY
An
entrepreneur who is successful has its own unique characteristics, one of the
characteristics of successful entrepreneurs is having a vision. Generally, the
vision means foresight, particularly with regard to future developments in
order to achieve important goals of an organization or country.
Vision for an entrepreneur
must be based on various conditions such as the world economic situation, the
state of fashion or the latest trends, consumer demand and so on. This is to
prevent vision loss to achieve a lot. An entrepreneur must also have
self-confidence in their ability to achieve success. It allows entrepreneurs
are more optimistic about the success they want to achieve and this attitude is
based on the actual situation.
Every
entrepreneur has a vision of its own according to the services or goods provided.
Dato' Aliff Syukri Kamarzaman is one of the leading cosmetic that has insight
into himself. He was the founder of D'HERBS and famous tagline "overshoot
demand". He
formerly worked as a seller of cosmetics in the night market and working with
others. The work was very tiring for him, and he opened a workshop to make up
in the office. Aiming high in self Dato 'Aliff to succeed finally able to open
his own cosmetics company.
Dato'
Aliff has a vision to make a "single level" that can produce health
and beauty products from the interior and exterior with a more concise. This is
because the resulting product of high quality and cost effective as well as
affordable for everyone and can generate profits to producers and traders. He
also has a mission to help women and men that look more confident and stylish.
Next, he hopes to expand its health and beauty products. Even difficult to
maintain the cosmetic product in Malaysia, but for being DATO' ALIF SYUKRI he
never desperate to introduce D'HERBS product to the public in Malaysia in line
with its goal to ensure product D'HERBS captured the hearts of consumers
Malaysia.
Therefore,
the vision of a successful entrepreneur will be achieved in line with their
actions. Feature insight in themselves also makes an entrepreneur an
entrepreneur is eager to achieve or enhance the goods and services provided.
6. OPEN CULTURE
A
further feature of entrepreneurs open culture. Open culture is knowledge should
be disseminated freely and growth supposed to come from developing, alter or
expand the work that is already available based on partnership and cooperation,
without limited by regulations relating to legal protection of intellectual
property.
Mark Zuckerberg an
entrepreneur that has an open culture. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is. He is a
leader who has the approval of the highest in technology. In fact, he was also
a founder of the youth building technology system in the popular social
networking site Facebook, which was designed by architect Frank Gehry.
Zuckerberg has an open
culture within the company, he did not distinguish his position as CEO and his
employees. This is evident when Zuckerberg works by using the same table with
the Macbook the same as it has been made available to his employees. In fact,
he remains committed to his work. The work culture in the company in a safe and
relaxed atmosphere will increase productivity and provide a better relationship
between employees and management.
Next, Mark Zuckerberg also
view communication is the most important thing in this era. Therefore, he has
built tools such as "messenger" to help people who are in touch with
the people they want and share what they want. At the same time many people who
share the status and image to create an atmosphere of better understanding each
other. With this it is clear that the open culture is a feature that can be
seen inside Mark Zuckerberg.
7. OUTCOME ORIENTED
Chances are there will
inevitably be achieved by any far-sighted entrepreneurs to step forward. This
is so because every opportunity to make money on them, then they will certainly
try to implement it they can also see the results to be obtained as a result of
their actions, and this will make them take risks.
Honda is a company wholly
owned by the famous engineer and entrepreneur cars from Japan, Soichiro Honda.
But in Malaysia there are also entrepreneurs who also managed to raise the
Honda name, Tan Sri Loh Boon Siew. Boon Siew Honda is a company that is very
famous in Malaysia today. This is so because, the company's ability to produce
motorcycles that meet the tastes of consumers in this country.
The idea to sell Honda
motorcycles in Malaysia erupted when Tan Sri Loh Boon Siew was in Japan in 1958
where he spotted a Honda motorcycle that was never used in Malaysia. Therefore,
he believes that the motorcycle model is suitable for use by people of Malaysia
because of its relatively small size and light weight compared to European
motorcycles so he decided to buy it and sell it in Malaysia.
However,
he only sold the motorcycle to his colleagues without taking any profit because
he wants people to know the motorcycle. He also ridiculed by society because
they assume that the motorcycle is not useful and quickly breaks down. However,
it did not discourage him because he can already see the results of which will
he get to bring the vehicle into Malaysia.
His expectations of positive
results that will be obtained from a motorcycle that is just as in 1963, Honda
became the most desirable vehicle and encouraging demand even today. Therefore,
the results-oriented features can be seen clearly in yourself as an
entrepreneur Tan Sri Loh Boon Siew.
8. TEAM ORIENTED
Teamwork
refers to employees who work in a group working together with each other and
work together to carry out its duties to achieve the goals, vision, mission,
and goals to be achieved in teamwork. A team consisting of a combination of a
number of individuals who are interdependent in terms of capacity, expertise,
skills and knowledge as well as accountability and commitment to the team's
performance and willing to carry out tasks jointly.
Group-oriented work allows an organization to
improve quality results without increasing resources in large numbers. This is
so because the division of tasks and positions in an organizational teamwork
involving the combined efforts, knowledge, skills and abilities special that
can produce higher performance than if done alone. Therefore, they need to be
able to intelligently devise strategies influence and don’t feel give up when
do something best in their life and future.
Datuk Wan Mohammad Sani Salleh
an entrepreneur in the field of automotive and bus transportation is often a
concern and the general public is almost entirely in the present. Name Managing
Director Sani United Sdn Bhd (USB) is engraved on the red bus which is often
also a choice of bus users. He also makes his best friend since childhood,
namely Datuk Sharifuddin as inspiration and motivation to continue to believe
in stepping into the realm of entrepreneurship. Hence, the success of which is
owned by a friend who had been together a model before moving into the field,
has become a strong driving force for him to not hesitate to venture into the
automotive-based. Therefore, he is determined to change the lives and succeed
in their respective fields.
Feature-oriented working
groups can be seen clearly in self Datuk Wan Mohammad Sani Salleh to see how
work is done by him. At first, he opened the business with two partners until
finally the two friends decided to withdraw. At that moment, he began to feel
the difficult situation of having to do it all alone without a partner, in
contrast to its previous state when he can refer to them if there are problems
to be solved.
At that time, he only had one person working
and finally the dream and his desire to start operating the bus started to bear
fruit after three years. In addition, if he has a small office, now he has his
own house bought and refurbished with spending levels reaching RM7 million. The
proof, all operating in Sani Express ticket counter in each country monitored
live via closed circuit that may be emitted directly to the guest house.
Thus it is clear that, team spirit and
group-oriented work remain and be seen clearly in self Datuk Wan Mohammad Sani
Salleh though he has had many workers and employees and become the boss. This
can be seen as he is very concerned about the continuity of the work carried
out by the administration and the work of his staff.
9. PROACTIVE
Proactive entrepreneurs who will act more aggressively in the behavior and
actions in the business world. Generally, proactive means of positive attitude
(individual, institutional and others) draw or perform an action. An
entrepreneur has a goal, a vision and always want to move forward. They are
also more creative and advanced products and services in the business world.
Proactive entrepreneurs also involves finding new opportunities in rural areas
of business operations. An entrepreneur must be proactive in business. He needs
to find a response, especially from customers and not wait for customers to
complain.
In addition, if there are
complaints from customers about the products or services offered, entrepreneurs
should have open minded and receiving the complaint happy. For example, they
don’t think negative and angry about the complaints from customer intead they
should take customer’s reviews and comments seriously. This is because, through
the comments or feedback entrepreneurs can improve the weaknesses and thus
achieving success in business.
As an example of
proactive entrepreneurs namely retail entrepreneur Datuk Wira Dr. Haji Ameer
Ali Mydin. He is the founder Mydin supermarket. Mydin is a supermarket which
offers cheap prices as compared to other supermarkets. Founder of Syarikat
Mydin Mohamed Holdings Berhad is a Mr. Ghulam Hussein Mydin Mohamed bin.
Beginning in 1957, he opened a small shop in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Starting
with his own savings and then get loans from financial institutions, he is now have more than 200 stores including 12
hypermarkets, 18 wholesale emporium, 3 bazaars, 53 mini-supermarkets, 10
convenience stores and five franchises in several states in Peninsular
Malaysia. But after Mr Mydin, his son Datuk Wira Dr. Haji Ameer Ali Mydin
connect legacy as Representative Director of Mydin.
He was proactive in
looking for opportunities in the market and meet the demand in the market at
reasonable prices to compete with other local supermarket. He is also seeking
feedback from customers to meet the new demands of customers. Therefore, it is
clear that proactive feature is a feature that occurs in a person entrepreneurs
like Datuk Wira Dr. Haji Ameer Ali Mydin.
