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10 Signs You’re An Entrepreneur Stuck In A Corporate System
Born to be your own boss or thrive within a corporate? Let’s find out
In many job descriptions, they list having an entrepreneurial spirit as a criterion. Since leaving the corporate world (my career of 13 years), I realised there is a huge difference between an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Having an entrepreneurial spirit means being a self-starter, proactive and showing leadership skills, which are necessary in corporate too.
But with an entrepreneurial mindset, it is a struggle to stay within the framework and adhere to hierarchy as your vision is grander or plainly different.
Here are the 10 signs I learnt the hard way:
1. You always see room for improvement
Your mind sees possibilities for improvement everywhere: from the filing system to management meetings.
Your brain is always concocting solutions; it spots efficiency in the most random of places. You come up with solutions for everything, even when it does not relate to the task at hand.
You are sometimes frustrated because you see obvious solutions to things people do not seem to care about. You would rather…
