To Achieve Success You Need To Create Success
As Shakespeare wrote in Twelfth Night, “some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
In our day and age of meritocracy, greatness usually comes only from achievement, not from birth or happenstance. So, we then have the question: “How do you achieve success?”
In today’s newsletter, To Achieve Success You Need To Create Success, I share a an insight I heard recently that sheds light on this question. On the surface, it’s simple, but, then again, sometimes the most important ideas are simple.
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A simple truth – achieve success to create success. Yet, this so easily and often over-looked. One reason why we pay small attention to this is that business publications (books and magazines) and the business community at large reward, recognize, and honor those who achieve mega-success, quickly, e.g. GroupOn, Facebook. We perpetuate the notion that we must be hugely successful in a compressed time frame. Achieving the early, smaller successes needs careful thought and planning, including consideration to a reasonable time for the early success to occur. Nature shows us that some plants grow rapidly, while others take longer. So, too, the success of each business opportunity – new product, new customer development – has to be aligned with an appropriate growth rate for early success. My experience has been that this early growth rate is often misjudged in both directions – too quick or too slow. Maybe someone has an idea on how best to determine the pace for early success.
AMEN!
I have about ten winning ideas – on paper. They will not actually come into existence until I stop looking and start doing.
Two of them I have bootstrapped. They exist.
Now that I have brought those two to the limits of their unfunded potential, I have both the data and drive necessary to go out and bring in the funding necessary to expand.
Thanks Steve!
Thank you ! I am totally sharing this point of view !