SmallBusinessNewz

The little entrepreneur sees a path where others view overgrowth, thorns, pitfalls, and really big snakes with sharp fangs and all the venom you could ever want. Not every entrepreneur makes it down that path far enough or for long enough to be a success.

Mark Silver said at the Huffington Post that the small business owner needs five qualities to succeed. Strength, it seems, comes from weakness, or at least vulnerability, according to Silver:

Vulnerability is when you are open to letting things in. Want more money? You need to be vulnerable. Need help from others? Vulnerability. Learning about your blind spots, or something new about marketing... yup, vulnerability.

It's the ability to say "I don't know."

We've always subscribed to the concept that no one knows it all and should be willing to say so. Perhaps most people think this is too much of a demonstration of weakness, but having something go horribly wrong out of a stubbornness to seek help may be the death of a business.

Silver feels vulnerability leads to the qualities of creativity, trust/faith, sovereignty, and patience. Everything has its place in small business. People already know about the need for hard work. The little qualities may be the difference makers.