CORPORATE QUIZ : Entrepreneur or Employee?
Take this test to find out what you would be best at
You have been given a task to perform,
which people say you only have a
20% chance of success. The promised
payback, though, is mouthwatering. You
choose to:
- Let it go.
- Decide to test the waters, but not go the
whole hog.
- Decide to plunge headlong and take your
chances.
You've got to meet a deadline in 24
hours. Which of these three options
would you choose:
- Seek an extension to the deadline.
- Work till 7 pm and then decide to pick it up
early next morning.
- Work through the night till the task is complete.
You consider yourself to be a person
who is:
- Well aware of one's weaknesses and is striving
to improve.
- Aware of one's strengths as well as weaknesses.
- Supremely confident of one's strengths and
don't think about one's weaknesses.
You apply for an entrance examination
but don't make it to the final list. How would you react?
- Take the failure to heart, and withdraw into
your cocoon.
- Curse the education system, as you are confident
that you had fared well.
- Decide to write the exam again the following
year.
Your idea of work-life balance is:
- Working 9 to 5, and then hitting the club.
- Working 10 hours a day for five days, and letting
your hair down on weekends.
- Work-life balance is a myth.
Your goal in life is:
- Earn well to take care of the family, and save
for a peaceful retirement.
- Have multiple houses and cars, investments
in multi bagger stocks and crore in insurance.
- To be remembered for building something
from scratch.
Your ideal way of earning a living would
be to:
- Be very good at one skill, and average at a few
others so that you can have multiple revenue
streams.
- Pursue a job and further education at the
same time in the hope of bagging something lucrative in future.
- Be very good at one skill, and keep the focus
on getting better at it.
You see people smarter than you at your
workplace. Your reaction is to:
- Compare and feel insecure.
- Believe you are better or at least as good as
them.
- Accept they are smarter, and think about the
possibilities if you were their boss.
You have been asked to do a task that
takes you out of your comfort zone.
Your reaction would be:
- I wasn't hired for this, so can't do it.
- Give me a raise and I will give it a shot.
- Relish the prospect.
You are heading a team that loses in
a business competition. Your reaction
would be:
- Look for weak links in the team to pin the
blame on.
- Spare the team, and blame the organisers and
format.
- Take the onus for the loss.