Are You an Innovator or Early Adaptor?

The success of any new business venture often depends on attracting the personality types of people who have the insights to immediately recognize an idea's potential. Whether it is investing early on in a company's stock long before it goes public, or becomming a business owner for some new fangled product or service, some people gladly take the risk knowing the big profits are only to be made if they get involved at the beginning.

Carl Rogers, an American Psychologist categorized 5 personality types which illustrate why some people are "Destined for Success" and why others are always "Missing The Boat."

One way for you to determine if you should start your own business is to understand and be truthful about your own personality. If you are not prone to taking risks and working hard independently, then you a probably not be a good candidate for starting your own business.

If you want to start and build a business, and you recognize you will need help in doing so, then knowing the positive personality traits to look for and identifying the right people (employees, partners, or associates) will help you more effectively identify who to hire or recruit into your organization.

 

Carl Roger's Personality Theory and Analysis

 

 

PROGRESS: "Risking toward Success!"

INNOVATORS are a very small percentage 2.5% of people that immediately embrace new ideas. Right away they see potential and imagine the possibilities, and all on their own they start developing ways to put them into action. They are comfortable with challenges, have great propensity toward taking risks, and work stubbornly to see things through to success.

EARLY ADAPTORS are also a small group, 13.5% of people. They are usually Social and Opinion Leaders, often popular, educated, articulate, and they see a competitive advantage in adopting new ideas early. This group is very effective in spreading acceptance of new ideas because they generate the respect of their peers who look to them for guidance. 

 

BARRIERS: "Hesitating toward Nowhere!"

THE EARLY MAJORITY is a sizable group of 34%, and an important link in the circulation process because they represent mainstream thinking. They slowly follow with calculated willingness to adopt any innovations, and they tend to deliberate for some time before completely adopting new ideas. The Early Majority are seldom looked to as Opinion Leaders because they tend to get involved only after something has become big or successful.

THE LATE MAJORITY is another large group at 34%. The common personality traits here are often feelings of being less entitled or undeserved of success. They feel that success is more luck than preparation. Typically paralyzed by insecurity and skepticism they are not risk takers and wait too long looking for guarantees before getting involved.

LAGGARDS are the last people to embrace new ideas and they influence nobody. They represent 16% of people and they are often closed minded due to being less educated and uniformed, and scared of change. They usually don't have aspirations or passions for new ideas and personal success, and typically anything remotely entrepreneurial seems totally out of the question.

 

So What Does All This Mean?

For the Early & Late Majority and the Laggards?

It is sadly typical for these people that their personalities do not allow them to see or act on new possibilities when they arrise and all too often they miss the boat. Those at the time who were so confidently skeptical and felt justified in their fears by proclaiming “it's a scam, or that charlatan's a snake oil salesman,” later beat themselves up with hind site about how they should have gotten involved when they first had the chance.

For Innovators and Early Adapters?

Innovators and Early Adapters not only recognize good opportunities and run with them, they actively look for them, or lay in wait for them. They do so because they know when a company or business becomes big, they will also become big. They know to get in early and position themselves to grow and profit with that business.

Note:

To think like these people, imagine yourself on your surf board in the ocean waiting for the "Big One." To make the most of that wave when it comes in, you'll want to position yourself to be at the right place so you can grab that wave and ride it as it roars toward shore.

When I first learned that our parent company, World2UMedia, had plans to expand Exotics by developing a Talent Scout Program, I couldn't help but think of the surfer analogy. While we are still in our early development stages and things are coming along, this is the time to position yourself. Your low cost, low risk, early involvement will guarantee you that, by participating and contributing to our growth and success, later when the program becomes a wide spread phomena you will be properly positioned to financially benefit by all those who will then want to jump on board.

All throughout history great people have recognized how seldom really good opportunities present themselves...

"Once, perhaps twice, but no more in an entire lifetime, will a person have an opportunity of life-changing magnitude. When such an opportunity knocks, it's up to you to accept it and make the most of it, or to simply let it pass by."  

                                                                                         Winston Chuchill

 

Whether our Talent Scout program is of life changing magnitude for you, only you would know. But if you were looking for a fun way to make money working from home, and to get into the adult entertainment business very afforadbly, this could be the very lifetime opportunity you've been waiting for.

Bob Stevens

Exotics Head Talent Scout.