Just the other day, while hosting my live talk radio show a listener called in to ask what does it take to lead a successful business. He asked a good question and I replied, an entrepreneur and or leader of a company must put themselves on a path to success and love the process and all it entails.
Entrepreneurs and business leader do what they do because they are passionate about the services and or products they provide their clients. Sometimes, business leaders get so caught up into the business,they forget to understand business is all about relationships with the leadership team, employees, customers and the community they serve.
In order to help business leaders discover their pathways to business success, they should consider the following:
1. Create a vision for the business.
2. Create an ideal business.
3. Define what success is for you and your business.
4. Empower others to breakthrough problems they encounter.
5. Business leaders must understand the importance of self motivation.
6. Honor values because they represent the core of ones being.
7. Visions are dynamic and continuously evolve.
8. Embrace challenges in order to learn and grow your business.
Let's start from the top, creating a vision for your business establishes the foundation that leads to success. In other words, you can't have an ideal business without having an ideal life which means light attracts light. If your personal life is in shambles, the likelihood of your business being successful is very remote. Harmony between one's personal and business life must exist in order for success to occur.
One creates an ideal business through the harmony that exist in one's personal and business life. In other words, work is play because of the passion a person has for their specific niche, be it real estate investing or leading a flower shop. Passion and purpose drives entrepreneurs and leads to an ideal business for the business leader who taps into their genius.
Success is different for everyone, thus it is simply a matter of what one considers success. For example, personal success may consist of being the best entrepreneur you can be. In other words, being a good business leader may very well be all of the success you want to achieve. On the other hand, business success could be defined as providing the best customer service to your clients over a sustained period of time and being in love with the process everyday.
Empowering others to breakthrough problems they may encounter, entails understanding every problem has a seed of greatness within it. We must understand problems are for our benefit, we grow and develop into better business leaders and employees in our efforts to deliver the best products and services to our market.
Business leaders must understand the importance of self-motivation, meaning they bring the combination of burning desire and positive expectations in all they do in support of the business. In other words, a made up mind is unstoppable.
When business leaders honor values, it means they are living an empowered life. We live, work and breath our values. Values represent the core of our being and it represents who we are.
Visions evolve as our values change and are grounded in time. Business leaders must craft a vision for success and consistently evaluate the new possibilities for their life and consider the legacy they are establishing for themselves and the business. Visions represent how we see ourselves, however it must include other people in order for it to assist in business success.
Embracing challenges is perhaps one of the keys to business success. Why? The bottom line is that we all have struggles and challenges and we must have the ability to grow from the challenging struggles we face in business.
Have you considered your pathways to business success and grow your business in any market? If you have not, consider working with a Certified Business Success Coach to help you get clear about growing your business in any market and realize the success other businesses are experiencing.