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Keys
to Success in Business by Alan Melton
Practical
Keys
- Identify
a higher purpose for your company. Develop a long-term vision
for your business that transcends merely earning profits. Include
in your vision something to make your community a better place
to live. Good employees and customers flock to a business that
has a higher purpose and values.
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Work on your vision every week. Spend uninterrupted time with
your team working on your business. Work to remove the obstacles
to achieving your vision. When you encounter a problem that isn't
easily solved, put the problem on a flip chart, and brainstorm
for solutions. If you keep focused on possible solutions, you
will eventually eliminate or reduce the problem.
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Develop yourself and your team. Your business will only grow to
the degree that you grow. Read books and articles, listen to audiotapes,
go to seminars, and watch videotapes and DVDs on business topics.
Use your commute time to develop yourself through tapes and CD's.
Get involved in your industry; attend trade shows, run for your
industry association board. Never stop learning and growing!
- Set
goals and measure progress for everything that's important. Is
your customer satisfaction important? If so, you better measure
it! Find a way to measure all of your critical success factors.
Once you establish a base line for a measure (your present performance
level), set a higher goal, and work toward it.
- Communicate-
Communicate- Communicate! Share your vision with your employees
beginning with their first day at work, and keep telling them
in different ways: in writing, in speech, and in action. Help
them to know what you know, and they will act like owners of your
business themselves. Share your vision with all of your stakeholders;
customers, shareholders, vendors, creditors. The power of a shared
vision will propel you to success.
- Exceed
the needs of your customer. Find out what your customer wants
and find a way to give the customer a little more than what they
want. Do this consistently and you will never have a shortage
of customers!
"You
can get anything you want out of life by helping enough other people
get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
Spiritual
Keys to Happiness
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Develop a daily quiet time. Spend the first part of your day asking
God for direction, insight, inspiration, and vision. Utilize this
time by praying and reading the Holy Bible. Use the ACTS acrostic
in praying for your business:
Adoration
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Praising
God for who He is. |
| Confession |
Confessing
sins of thought, word, commission, and omission |
| Thanksgiving
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Thanking
God for what He has done |
| Supplication |
Asking
God to help us with our specific needs and the needs of others |
After
you have done the above, do whatever God places on your heart and
mind. Obey His leadership, no matter how unusual it may seem. Study
the heroes of the bible to see God using unusual acts to bring about
His supernatural events.
"All
of our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God."
- Oswald Chambers
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