Investigating the effect of multiple intelligence on individual performance of top entrepreneurs

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of multiple intelligence on the individual performance of top entrepreneurs in Kermanshah city. The present study was quantitative and applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey and correlational in terms of data collection. The statistical population included top entrepreneurs in Kermanshah city, numbered 55 people in the period 2011 to 2017 according to the Bureau of Labor, Welfare and Social Affairs, of which 40 were available and surveyed. In order to analyze the data in the descriptive statistics section, SPSS23 software was used and in the data analysis section, factor analysis and structural equation modeling in Amos software was employed. The results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between entrepreneurs' multiple intelligence and their individual performance. Entrepreneurs could succeed in their workplace if they could survive in this turbulent world and this requires a thorough understanding of the external, economic, technological, political, and other factors to enable better individual performance. If entrepreneurs had high mathematical-logical and intrapersonal intelligence, they had the least error in their decision making and were more capable in making rational decisions, organizing and evaluating program effectiveness.