Employees are resource-oriented. Entrepreneurs are opportunity-oriented.-
A person with an employee mindset might say, “I would start my own business but I don’t have the money.” The person focuses on their resources, in this case their lack of money, rather than the opportunity.
In a similar situation, a person with an entrepreneur’s mindset might say, “Let’s start the business and we can finance the business from the cash flow.” Or “Tie up the property and we’ll find the money later.”
Kiyosaki’s rich dad said, “If you do not have resources, you need to become resourceful.” Poor people say ‘I can’t afford it.’ That’s why they’re poor’. According to kiyosaki, when we say I can’t afford it, we just shut our brains to the opportunity, instead we should ask “how can I afford it”
Employees prefer to manage via hierarchical structures. Entrepreneurs manage via networks, utilizing the resources of other people and organizations.-
This means that employee-type leaders would rather hire people and bring their talent “in-house.” Rather than have an outside firm do their creative work, an employee-type leader would prefer to hire the talent and have them under their control. This is because employees gravitate to a leadership style that is more suited to a military command-and-control type of organization.
Instead of the military’s command-and-control leadership style, his Rich Dad used a more cooperative and collaborative style of leadership. He encouraged his son and Robert to learn to lead and manage people who are not required to follow our orders. Rather than hire people and bring them in-house, rich dad networked with other people and organizations, which tended to reduce his costs and at the same time increase his resources and influence in the marketplace.
Today, The Rich Dad Company follows rich dad’s advice. Instead of becoming a stand-alone publishing house, they choose to cooperate via a joint venture agreement with The Time Warner Book Group, as well as licensed publishers around the world who offer their books in 43 languages. In this way, they keep the core staff small, yet utilize the thousands of employees of publishers around the world.
But Robert Kiyosaki Says that leveraging the assets and resources of partners is not enough. It’s important to choose the right partners-ones who are aligned with your goals and values. Choosing the right partners can make the difference between success and failure-as I’ve learned the hard way.
In doing so, Rich Dad Company-as entrepreneurs-stay small, yet increase market share by cooperating rather than competing… by networking rather than hiring employees and bringing work “in-house.”
These were some basic differences in the mindset of employees and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship comes from the confidence to organize and take risks. Financial education is what builds up this confidence