Russians think that to be successful in managing business a person needs to be purposeful, goal oriented, ambitious, and persistent. Professionalism and intelligence have also scored a lot of votes in a recent survey as required qualities for success.
Success in business: What’s required?
According to a recent WCIOM survey, being goal oriented and persistent are the most important qualities to achieve success in business.
The list of qualities required for success differs slightly from the traits of an ideal leader (an ideal leader would be, first of all, honest).
Some traits were bought together as one category, while the question was open, so the answers were not scripted. Possibly, if the list was analysed and people were asked a structured question, the answers would be different.
We had such result on Elenasmodels.com when asked women about their reasons to seek a partner abroad (Top-10 reasons why Slavic women seek to marry a foreigner).
When we asked an open-ended question why women wanted to find a partner abroad, we got certain results and then put the reasons in a structured way and asked again. This time the results were slightly different, although the audience was the same (women seeking a partner on Elena’s Models website).
Sometimes people, especially when they are given little time to respond to a question, give not truthful answers but the ones they think are expected. A recent scientific research discovered this peculiarity.
Top-10 qualities to be successful in business, according to Russians (2020 survey)
- Purposeful, ambitious, persistent: 22%
- Professional, competent, educated: 20%
- Honest: 16%
- Attentive to employees, respect to people: 11%
- Hardworking: 8%
- Just, fair: 8%
- Communicable, sociable: 7%
- Integrity: 6%
- Responsible: 6%
- Leadership qualities: 6%
If we put integrity and honesty together, then it would become the leading factor along with being goal–oriented and persistent (22% each category).
It should be noted that 1 in 4 respondents (24%) found it difficult to answer this question. Possibly, the reason is that these questions were asked as a part of a larger phone survey, so people were just tired to think.
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