Understanding Business
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Author: William Nickels
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Subject: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Notes to guide your response: Gordon Butch Stewart is a successful Jamaican businessman.
He possesses characteristics such as creativity, innovation, risk-taking, leadership, social skills, planning, dependability, discipline, passion and hard work.
Question 1: How do you think these characteristics listed above and the entrepreneur's cultural background influenced their success?
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