Wednesday, 22 April 2015

The Entrepreneurial Traits: Integrity and reliability


The integrity word came from the Latin adjectives. Integrity is the fundamental values that employers seek in the employees that they wanted to hire. A person who has integrity lives his or her values in relationships with workers, customers, stakeholders. Trust and honesty are central to integrity. Those people who are acting with honour and truthfulness are also a basic principle in a person with integrity. Reliability is the ability of a person or system to perform and maintain its function in routine circumstances, as well as hostile or unexpected circumstances.

            Integrity and reliability are the glue and fiber that bind successful personal business relationships and make them endure. Inventors, partners, customers and creditors alike values these attribute highly. Integrity and reliability help and sustain trust and confidence. Small-business entrepreneur, in particular, find these two characteristic crucial to success.



            Example of entrepreneur, who showed this trait is Pua Khein-Seng, is arguably one of the inventors of USB flash drive. In an in interview with The Star, the CEO of Phison Electronics Corp based in Taiwan claims to have corporate the world’s first single chip USB flash drive. He is even regarded as “father of pen drive” in Malaysia. When Pua is dealing with huge obstacles, his person has help him overcome the hurdles and also his staff, shreholdersand partners always give him a lot of support. Pua proved his integrity ang reliability value by saying that “You need team as it was not a come one-man show. You need to have your core technology and values to stay competitive.” To him, it is a simple principle: “don’t treat others the way you wouldn’t want others to treat you. Your staff will like you more if you treat them like your friend s. They will not like to work for you if you treat them as a part of a money-making machine.

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