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Business Courage
National Mirror www.nationalmirroronline.net
Monday, January 26, 2015
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With Mamora Victor Mamora is a system thinker and advisor whose belief and activator leadership strengths are directed towards improving workers perspective for city and enterprise development.
e-mail: olusegunmamora@gmail.com
stand still without. The law of progress says “First within and then without”. All progress remains at a state of rest until a mental force is applied. Emphasis has to be on mental work because it is what gives value to physical work. Education, study, professional training, and reading books sharpen ones cutting edge in life. I should say that in any organisation where individual do not improve mentally the corporate cutting edge potential will be blunted. Therefore, it is important to encourage workers to invest in personal improvement and the potential for corporate success and national development has a chance of reality. Slow business growth and country development is an effect of business and society unguided by the principle of progress. Principle of progress gives creative power and a leverage for everybody. Principle is fair to all whether an African, American, Asian, European.
I will encourage that you take steps towards improving yourself and by this responsibility, your contribution to country economy will improve the potential of the national economic growth. Therefore, take note of these responsibilities as explained below for personal improvement. First: Make up your mind to improve You need to make up your mind that it is possible to improve on many things. You can improve your professional skills, soft skills, business image, personal image, office location and types of client, market share, sales, marketing strategy or your business process. Set goals for improvement. There is no success without goals. You can imagine how boring a football match will be where there are no goal posts. The player will not be motivated to improve on their football skills. You need to have improvement goals and plan. The planning brakes down the processes
In any organisation where individual do not improve mentally the corporate cutting edge potential will be blunted
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dewale, fondly called “Dewale Alapere” (which means, ‘Dewale the basket weaver) grew up in a village, south west Nigeria. He grew up on a farm with parents who could not afford to buy a bed but always slept on bamboo with mat and lived in mud house until he departed for the University of Ilorin where he had his first opportunity to view television. He and his family were classified as poor in his young age but ‘Dewale has a passion that circumstances could not take away. While his sibling were eager to receive Christmas clothes and look forward to the luxury of eating rice and chicken, which was a special Christmas menu, he would insist that his portion of the fund be diverted to purchase his school books. As a young boy, he has passion for personal improvement. Today, my friend “Dewale Alapere” is a top performance leader and excellent manager of resources in one of the top 2 new generation banks in Nigeria. His decision for personal improvement has improved his community, family and the organisation he works with. I understand that Adewale often meet his target latest by 3rd quarter of the year. The last time I visited him and checked his personal library, it impressed upon me that personal transformation is impossible without private responsibility to improve one’s knowledge base. This is the reason that notable people in any economy usually are people of “Note and Table”. They seat, study, strategise and execute. Adewale has moved beyond “Dewale Alapere” whose job was to weave basket to a PhD holder and works with a bank that performed best in Nigeria in the year 2013. He is so passionate about personal improvement that the tedious bank job in Nigeria could not stand in his way to start and finish his PhD degree at the University of Ibadan in the year 2013. Dear friend, the journey from rags to riches, grass to grace, is an internal trip. You cannot travel within and
to achieve the improvement goals. Second: Never allow outside to catch up with your inside Be far inside your mind than what people will see outside you. It does not matter how excellent people perceive your work, products and service make it an attitude of having a mind that sees beyond what people celebrate now. When people see the best local brand then in your mind, you are seeing world best brand in that category. What I mean is, do not allow complacency. Celebrate new improvement, thank God for it, appreciate everybody who supported you and move to the next level of your improvement goals. Third: Develop a private library
Motivational Business Quotes
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ife is too complicated not to be orderly. – Martha Stewart
Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. – Albert Einstein
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic
Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. – C.J. Walker
We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin
It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. – Ren Mulford Jr. BC
Have a private home or office library. Leaders are readers. There can be no progress in the business of a leader whose knowledge base is struggling to catch up with the reality of present business sphere. Few years ago, I learnt that Dr. David Oyedepo, the chancellor of Covenant University has one of the largest and functional personal library with tens of thousands of books. That reflect in his effective management and leadership of one of the world largest and wealthiest faith based organisation in the world. It is a smart decision to have a personal library or laboratory where you can develop ideas, consult other books and work on projects. Four: Every little improvement counts Sometimes wanting to see result happen immediately can stand in the way of your improvement effort. The smart people improve little by little and consistently improving daily for many years. Improve your study habit by 5 minutes daily will amount to additional 1825 study minutes in a year. You can focus on little effort to exercise by doing 10 push up daily, read one chapter of your bible daily, and listen to 10 minutes inspiration message daily. Attend one professional development seminar yearly. Every little effort towards improvement accumulate to reposition your for success. It takes you up beyond your imagination and makes you smile upward in life. Dear friend, there is no world class brain anywhere. Every human brain has the same potential. We only have people who have taken world class responsibilities for their brain potentials and stretched their mind to achieve what others feels impossible. These are the people whose business command world class attention and larger shares of the world market distributions of products and services. My personal belief is that if they can achieve it, you can do it too. Take courageous steps to improve now, you will surely be better off at the end. BC