The very act of lengthening your time perspective, of thinking far into the future, changes your attitude and your personality. You begin the process of getting rich in America by thinking ahead ten or twenty years. As you do, you become more capable of setting bigger, longer term goals, and making long term plans for their accomplishment. You become more thoughtful about your decisions, and more sensitive to the long term consequences of the ways that you invest your (more…)
The form of leverage you can develop is a positive personality. Every study of successful people concludes that the more people there are who like you, the more doors they will open for you and the more opportunities you will have to get ahead. If they like you, people will do everything possible to help you succeed. Your ability to get along with others, to communicate effectively, to be a positive and (more…)
If you are a small business owner already, this one doesn’t need much of an explanation. Many wannabe entrepreneurs fantasize about leaving the confines of working for someone else. They think starting their own company will make them wealthier than being an employee. In some cases it is true, but on the whole, it is not.
According to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the average business (more…)
It is admittedly difficult to make sweeping pronouncements about the future of small business in the United States. The prospects for a one-location retail video store versus a 90-person telemedicine delivery company are obviously not the same. However, there are a few macro changes afoot that will affect us all in some way.
I recently attended a U.S. Chamber of Commerce small business summit. Hundreds of small business owners, policy-makers, and politicians assembled to (more…)
What these expressions such as “sense of purpose” and “reason for being” mean is that it’s about more than just making money—a lot more. If you are educated enough to be reading this book (and wise enough to see it would be helpful), you can find a job. You can make a living and put food on the table. The same goes for your employees. If it’s just about money, they can work for you or they can work for somebody else down the street—what difference does it make, right?
I could quote you study after study showing all the things employees value over money, but (more…)