One of my favorite comedians, Jon Richardson, says that there are 2 types of people: putters and leavers. And while I find that generally true, I’ll argue there are 2 types of entrepreneurs: planners and leavers.
Planners are the folks who are looking months and seasons ahead to set the trends (think Jeff Bezos of Amazon, founder of Zappos Tony Hsieh and fashion icon Anna Wintour). There are leaders in every industry, sure, but planners are also the people within those organizations who are setting up promotions, product roll outs and launches in advance of the public announcement.
And then there are the leavers, as in “leave it, I can do it later…” and those are the entrepreneurs I want to talk to today.