Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Bringing Your Business to the Next Level

There is a post at the Atlasphere regarding skills needed and steps to be taken in order to bring your business to the next level in its growth.

There is also a link to a seminar that the author is holding "February 23rd and 24th in Orlando, Florida, and will feature a wide range of highly-respect business speakers — including Hall of Fame Quarterback Fran Tarkenton — each of whom is an expert in one or more of these skill areas." (Clicking on the link allows free registration, and allows the download of two free PDF books.)

The skills and steps are described as:

...real entrepreneurial skills. These are time-proven, principle-based skills that will help you attain a greater level of success now as well as in the future.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the owner of a small business, a “serial entrepreneur” with numerous businesses to your credit, or even a young person who wants to start off with a huge advantage over your peers. These highly-effective skills — which help you to decide what you want, create a plan to attain it, then overcome every conceivable obstacle along the way — are just about all you need to earn a mountain of money and gain the true freedom that real entrepreneurship delivers.

In researching over 250 business owners, professors and notable experts on the subject, my business partner and I compiled a list twenty-seven distinct areas of business skills that were mentioned as important for maximum entrepreneurial success. However, there are ten particular business and life skills that were noted by the vast majority of those we studied.

These are the skill areas that, when developed by themselves, all produce solid gains in performance. However, when they are developed — even slightly — in combination with one other, the synergistic effect produces tremendous increases in success.


Here are those ten business and life skills:

1. Vision and Perseverance. Much has been written about Vision, yet some of what has been said is so overly complicated and daunting that very few have actually taken the time to write out what the vision for their business really is.

For maximum business success, you simply have to hold in your mind a clear picture of what you want your business to become. This type of vision keeps the potter from making an ashtray while working on an urn. Likewise, it will ensure that you grow your business into one that gives you deep satisfaction and financial rewards, instead of one that taxes your time and energy. Having a clear vision will also help you to develop your will and responses to overcome any challenge and come back from any setback — stronger than ever.


2. Wealth Mindset and Attraction. Unfortunately, many still consider mindset and attraction principles to be a sort of spiritual “hocus pocus.” However, the more we study Quantum Physics and the power of the mind, the more society is beginning to recognize this as real science with a solid set of “how-to” principles. The more you get to know the mind you have been endowed with and how it has been wired to work, the more you will be able to accomplish even your most lofty goals without striving and working around the clock to make things happen.

3. Business Systems.

4. Energy and Fitness.

5. Tax Reduction and Asset Protection.

6. Motivation.

7. Leadership and Influence.

8. Networking and Referrals.

9. Marketing.


And the most important skill for a small-businessman:

10. Entrepreneurship. There’s a big difference between selling your skills, talents or specialized knowledge and being a real entrepreneur — one who can consistently create profits from different ventures time after time. Real entrepreneurs have learned how to recognize, evaluate and act on opportunities. When you learn these skills you will be able to build businesses to be assets that deliver passive profits or can be sold for huge gains. You’ll also have the freedom that comes with knowing you could start over and do it from scratch if you ever needed or wanted to.

Admittedly, a list of ten different entrepreneurial skill areas like this can be overwhelming to think about. There are several that I know I could use some work on. Being created for growth, the learning and improvement will never end. That thought can be both empowering and exhausting at the same time.


All of these are powerful tools and necessary skills for anyone in business, and as anyone who is familiar with the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People knows, Synergy (the 6th Habit) is a very powerful method of creating a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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