tend to be motivated by career promotions and other traditional corporate including location sire, staff, and power. Traditional managers more on. ented the achievement of short term goals, their business's are looking at growth over a longer term, say five to ten years. The managerial activ- ities that the engage in are also differ- Entrepreneurs ent. tend to be involved in their operational activities: traditional managers tend to del egate tasks and supervise those workers performing the tasks. Finally, traditional managers and entrepreneurs have differ- ent views toward failures and mistakes. Entrepreneurs tend to accept mistakes as a normal part of doing business traditional managers tend to avoid putting them selves into situations in which they could fail or make a mistake. Linda Lang is an entrepreneur She founded Arizona Rotocraft, Inc. a hel copter engine repair shop in 1993 with $25,000. She started her company after divorcing her husband and liquidating the concrete business they had run. Some people may think that a woman is unlikely to be successful in the field of helicopter repair, but Lang has built her company to 21 employees and over $6 million in annual revenues. Although she realist cally accepis that this business could fail, Lang is taking steps to see it does mot. in a large company, a manager with the responsibility of managing a division or product line might not take the risks that Lang and other entrepreneurs like her take and may not be as firmly committed to seeing the venture succeed. So, even though managers in small businesses perform essentially the same managerial activities as managers in large organizations, we do find some clear distinctions between entrepreneurs and traditional business managers,