Is The Entrepreneur just another manager

Merriam - Webster dictionary it defines entrepreneur as "one who organises, managers, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise" and manager as "one that manages as: a: a person who conducts business or household affairs or b: a person whose work or profession is management. However based on a survey released by 87 Marys University in San Antonio, Texas (Business News, Oct 1997) finds out that manager tends to spend very little time on customer service, such as handling complaints. These task sometimes fill more than a third of an entrepreneur's day. Conversely managers spend twice as much time networking than do the more self-reliant entrepreneurs.
            
            
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             Is manager just another entrepreneur? As from the above definition, there is a lot of overlap between the two. It would seem that the entrepreneur takes on no task that is different to the tasks taken on by managers at some time or other. To distinguish between an entrepreneur and an manager, Philip A Wickham (Strategic Entrepreneurship,1988) suggest that they should be compare in terms of what they manages, how they manage, their effectiveness and the effect they have as a manager, not the particular tasks they undertake.
            
             The entrepreneurial side is always conflicts with the manager side. In Mastering enterprise it stated that Entrepreneurs seem to be achievement oriented, like to take responsibility for decisions and dislike repetitive, routine work. On the other hand managers are oriented toward consolidating, surviving, growing, power and influence- oriented. Some entrepreneurs are strikingly ambivalent when an issue of control surfaces – they are filled with fantasies of grandiosity, influence, power and authority yet they also feel helpless. They like to be in control but fear being controlled by others.
            
             Some entrepreneurs have serious difficulties addressing issues...

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