Seven Steps to Succeed in Business
1. USE COMMON SENSE
Common sense means the ability of a person to make right
judgements on the happenings he encounters in his daily life.
Research by one of the biggest business magazines Forbes has
showed that it is the foundation of the edifice of any
successful venture. Your common sense allows you to understand
the root of a problem and provides you with ideas to solve it. A
good common sense develops with the help of your acquired
knowledge and experience of life. Strugglers always have better
common sense than those silver spoons who get every facility of
life in a golden plate. Problems and struggles sharpen the brain
of a person and develop his confidence.
2. HAVE SELF CONFIDENCE
Self confidence is key to success in any field. It is like lamp
of Aladdin that helps you to surmount any trouble that comes to
frustrate you in your day to day fight. A self-confident
entrepreneur is ready to take challenges and take quick
decisions in difficult times. Persons lacking self confidence
can rarely succeed in any venture. About 50 percent
entrepreneurs abandon their struggle to succeed because they
lack confidence in their abilities or winning potential.
Self-confidence is a trait that can be gained by self-suggestion
or affirmation, knowledge and honing your skills in the
profession or trade you are venturing in.
3. ACQUIRE SKILLS
How can anyone expect to win a boxing bout without preparing for
it? A hero may pulp down a trained opponent with the shower of
his punches in a movie but in real life a novice will start
bleeding and leave the ring after a couple of rounds. In a
similar way it is easier to enter the ring of business world
than to survive the long and bitter fight. This world is albeit
more difficult because you have to face not one but scores of
opponents - financial troubles, criticism, competitors, sharks
of daily crisis etc. So to get victory you need to acquire
adequate knowledge, proper training, and necessary skills. Till
you have all these don't dare to enter the business ring.
4. BE INNOVATIVE
Every great businessman is innovative like a scientist. He
keeps churning out new solutions to the problems and finds
different ways to get the things done and move faster.
Hard-headed businessmen who want to do the things with the same
orthodox approach may be able to earn good bread and butter but
rarely get any remarkable success. Today's entrepreneurs need a
very creative thinking in everything they do - making a business
plan, launching a new product, marketing campaign,
decision-making, management or public relations. Sometimes one
new idea or innovative step becomes a Midas touch for your
venture. You can have ample proof of it by reading success
stories of Microsoft, Coke, Pepsi, Reliance, Infosys,
Wall-marts, MacDonald's, Nike etc.
5. ADOPT PROACTIVENESS
Politicians often adopt the strategy of blame-game to get
public attention and divert the course of action of their
opponents. But it proves suicidal in your way to become a
successful entrepreneur. That's the main reason why almost all
the politicians fail when they try to venture or invest in
business. Successful entrepreneurs never hold others responsible
for any failure. They neither indulge in criticism nor get
affected by it. Depending on their own resources and
capabilities they adopt a very proactive approach. They know
that success or failure solely depends on the decisions they
take, the moves they choose or the policies they make. Instead
of wasting their time in criticism or blame game they think
positive and keep their team enthusiastic and even try to win
the cooperation of their opponents.
6. GET THINGS DONE
Successful entrepreneurs are also very different in one more
approach to success. Instead of wasting their energy in petty
manoeuvring or politicking they believe in hard work,
persistence and self-discipline. Without having this approach no
one has ever achieved goals or enjoyed lasting success till
date. The person who develops the ability to get the necessary
things done without any hesitation can never be doomed to
failures. And he also springs up fast from temporary failures.
Such entrepreneurs prefer work to leisure and they are always
ready to take up a boring job for the benefit of their business
rather than indulging in fun providing activities like common
men (watching their favourite TV serials or movies, turning over
the pages of fun magazines, relishing dishes or commentaries of
games etc.). When most of the persons are at home or with their
friends to have fun of burning money and time the entrepreneurs
may be sweating it out to get the necessary things done. Their
work is their real fun and relaxation.
7. BE A GOOD CAPTAIN
Every successful entrepreneurs have actually two families - one
at home and the other at the working place. Employees are like
family members for them. An entrepreneur is a friendly and
motivating captain of his team who shares the joys and sorrows
of team members. He knows how to keep his team always in a high
spirits and leads them to victory. He is aware of the fact that
different members have different roles to play and only their
joint efforts can achieve goals or clinch a victory. Ignored or
untrained members in the team can cause problems or dampen the
team spirit so essential to win.
Anandrahi
Trained thousands of persons to get great jobs, improve
personality and achieve goals in business. CEO: News of India
Network Director: LSE-India (for Communication Skills and
Personality Development)
Best-selling Books written by Anandrahi : 1. Think Your Way to
Wealth and Power , 2. Fire of Success in Your Mind, 3. Speak
English and Influence People (To get an ebook write an email).
emails: anandrahi@yahoo.co.in, anandrahi@newsofindia.net
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About the author:
Anandrahi
Trained thousands of persons to get great jobs, improve
personality and achieve goals in business. CEO: News of India
Network Director: LSE-India (for Communication Skills and
Personality Development)
Best-selling Books written by Anandrahi : 1. Think Your Way to
Wealth and Power , 2. Fire of Success in Your Mind, 3. Speak
English and Influence People (To get an ebook write an email).
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