A New Look at Entrepreneurship: Where Six Sigma Aligns Personality with Process

Six Sigma and similar process models may seem like a bad fit for the world’s innovators until we recall that Six Sigma is itself an innovation, and the disruptive, data-driven production processes that began at Motorola decades ago are applied in virtually every discipline now. The real breakthrough for many up-and-coming businesses, whether focused on artisanal cheese or app development, may be to connect the positive traits of entrepreneurs – their confidence and commitment – with the structure of success.

Take the entrepreneurial lean towards breadth as an example. One European study, published in 2013, found that entrepreneurs do, indeed, have a jack-of-all-trades mindset first identified years ago at Stanford University. The quality of competence in different skill sets and curiosity in acquiring more extends to social capital as well, because the way entrepreneurs connect isn’t within insular groups. >
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