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That is what I am trying to contest here, a manager can also be an entrepreneur. One does not need to own a business to be an entrepreneur. I believe it is a mindset. Even a manager running P&L of a division can be an entrepreneur if one can deliver on ways to create products/ services to improve lives of customers/ users.

[Archelaos]

I think that the term "entrepreneur" is so fuzzy that there are many different meanings that may well contradict each other. Since your question was phrased very subjectively, I chose the destinction that I found most revealing.

In business, each of us first acts individually. The question is how we meaningfully identify roles in this context. "Entrepreneurs" und "managers" are perhaps not specific enough roles to provide us with valuable insights. Consider your criteria of being able to "deliver on ways to create products/ services to improve lives of customers/ users". This is in no way limited to people who we typically call entrepreneurs. Everyone who has a creative job or volunteer work does this or contributes to it. So if it is not sufficient to characterize an entrepreneur, is it at least required? -- I do not think that neither inovation nor success is a mandatory criteria for the general use cases of the term.

Nevertheless, it might be worth asking what an innovative and successful entrepreneur has in common with an innovative and successful manager and what might distinguish them from each other. As a thought experiment, we can imagine one and the same person (= one mindset) once as the owner and once as the manager of the same business. Would the business decisions always be the same?