Differences Between Employees and Entrepreneurs

员工和企业家之间的区别

1. Employees seek direction while entrepreneurs create a path.

员工寻求方向而企业家创建一条路径。

Employees tend to seek help when a problem arises at work. Entrepreneurs create the solutions that keep the organization moving forward.

员工在工作中出现问题时寻求帮助。企业家创建解决方案,保持组织前进.

2. Employees do while entrepreneurs listen.

员工在做而企业家在听。

It’s the employees who get most of the work done in any organization. But in order for them to do it well, the entrepreneur at the helm has to listen to their needs and ensure they maintain a productive and positive work environment for staff.

员工完成大部分工作在任何组织。但是为了他们做得很好,企业家掌舵倾听他们的需求,并确保他们为员工维持一个高效和积极的工作环境。

3. Employees take fewer risks while entrepreneurs live for them.

员工承担较少的风险而企业家为风险而活。

While doing things the safest way can actually be good for an organization, it takes a risk-tolerant entrepreneur to believe in and build the organization in the first place.

然而用最安全的方法做事情实际上是有利于一个组织,需要风险企业家相信并在第一时间建立组织。

4. Employees are often specialists while entrepreneurs are generalists.

员工通常是专家,而企业家是多面手。

Entrepreneurs need to know a little bit about a lot of things, in part so they can empower the specialist employees who work for them. In fact, a Swiss-German study found that specialists tend to be employees for life, and in fact prefer that role.

企业家需要知道很多事情,在一定程度上,这样他们就可以让专家为他们工作。事实上,瑞士和德国的一项研究发现,专家往往是员工生活,他们实际上更喜欢这个角色。

5. Employees get paid for their role while entrepreneurs get paid for results.

员工因为任务获得报酬而企业家因为结果获得报酬。

Entrepreneurs are sometimes the last to get paid in a company, because their compensation is tied directly to performance and profit.

企业家在公司往往是最后得到报酬,因为他们的薪酬直接与绩效和利润挂钩。

6. Employees love holidays because they get the day off while entrepreneurs do because they can work all day with few interruptions.

员工喜欢的假期,因为他们放假，而企业家工作因为他们可以几乎不中断工作一整天。

A lot of entrepreneurs rejoice when holidays come along, not because they’re taking well-deserve time off, but because they can be productive all day without being disrupted or distracted.

很多企业家喜欢假期来临,不是因为他们可以放假,而是因为他们可以工作一整天而不被破坏或分心。

7. Employees appreciate steady employment while entrepreneurs are comfortable without job security.

员工喜欢稳定升值就业而企业家喜欢工作没有保障。

Entrepreneurs know that it’s risky¹ to build a business and that they must sacrifice steady employment in order to build the company.

企业家知道建业是风险,他们必须牺牲稳定就业为了建立公司。

8. Employees follow rules while entrepreneurs break them.

员工遵循规则而企业家打破规则。

It’s a strange paradox², but to create a successful business an entrepreneur has to disrupt something, break a rule, or change the game. But in order to keep the entrepreneur’s company going, the employees need to be there to uphold the new status quo.

这是一个奇怪的悖论,但创建一个成功的企业一个企业家必须打破一些东西,打破规则,或改变比赛。但为了保持企业家的公司继续运行,员工需要支持新的现状。