The Informed.

Last week, the post did some justice to the issue of persuasion, dishing out the six (6) elements of a persuasive style of leading or managing a business or organization, or in sales and marketing of a particular service or product. This week, the emphasis is deeply rooted in a closely related aspect of growing our personal and business potentials - addressing the difference between a business leader and a manager. What difference is there, between leaders and managers, in a business or work environment? Are leaders more effective and efficient than managers in business? Which approach would you take from either one - a leader or a manager? Does it really make any difference, as a business person or in pursuit of your entrepreneurial goals?  It is one thing to be a manager, but an entirely different issue to be a leader, especially, an effective and efficient leader - a leader, who challenges his or her team or group to attempt and achieve greater heights than the status ...

Having looked into the ten (10) traits, commonly found, in all success-minded persons or entrepreneurs, in the previous post, the focus is now on another vital trait that could be very much needed by entrepreneurs or business owners - and that is the element of persuasion . The science of influencing and persuading one's target clients and customers or stakeholders in any business field is something that critical to the success of entrepreneurs. What exactly will influence an investor or customer or client to say "yes" while seeking that from them? Over the past 60 years, researchers have been looking into that and the fact is there must be a science as to how we are persuaded. In a brief but concise manner, this post will focus on the six (6) most vital methods of conveying what entrepreneurs need their stakeholders - customers, investors and clients, to hear, believe and accept. Some of these are quite interesting while others may be challenging to do, bu...

In today's post, there is a shift from the focus on marketing and the entrepreneur, that has been on since the last quarter of 2016, to a new aspect of the life of an entrepreneur, and in light of what this blog is all about - and that is, getting entrepreneurs better informed in ways that should help them to build a successful entrepreneurial lifestyle; managing their successes (in business and engagement), and to retain such over time. Here is a look at the top ten terrific traits of the super successful people, though, not necessarily limited to these alone. As Brian Tracy, rightly puts it, "Successful people are simply those with successful habits." In other words, for an entrepreneur or anyone to be successful, there should a constant wearing of the success cloak, in a wholesome manner, realistically and not day dreaming. The first trait is having Speed Learning , and this you can do by reading fifteen (15) pages daily - I mean reading non-fictional stu...