December 11, 2008

Some Strategies by Successful Entrepreneurs 01

1. Buying at a Bargaining Price

In the negotiation, time and waiting are a powerful influencing tool, so never be in hurry when buying.

2. Live within your means

As it is widely seen that many people who are earning a high income still manager to get into debt. Being big does not always mean that a company is rich or earning much rather it requires credit to augment their self esteem.

3. Cash is King

When it comes to accounting, entrepreneurs seem to focus on cash flow. Instead of seeing their business in simple terms, even when it becomes larger usually they concentrate on increasing cash in and reducing cash out. Also when it comes to balance sheet, the entrepreneur must have to think of assets and as things that produce income and of liabilities as things that cost money to them.

4. Recruit the Best and set them for Outstanding

It is an integral part for an entrepreneur to set a team of A-level people in the organization. And first step for this is to have an efficient and fruitful (by fruitful we should aim at long term goals of the organization) people in the team so that they help them towards the vision and mission for the company. An entrepreneur must have to think of the organization that he/she has to consider to be leading in their field and then look at how they recruit.
Many interviews, panel of expert’s interview, aptitude & personality tests and sometimes assessment days are most common ways adopted by most the companies for hiring highly talented people in the organization.

5. Training the Elite Team

Training is often something that is considered important but not urgent and thus keeps getting postponed but most of the entrepreneurs in their organization. It must consider it as an efficient process for the proper functioning of the business and also a motivational factor for the staff. Being owner of the business he/she must consider that training return is limited by the quality of the staff being trained.

6. Establishing a Corporate Culture & Team Identity

It can be seen from the critical study of the successful companies and particularly the entrepreneurial companies who have got a remarkable success in their operations, that all have identified a strong team and corporate culture early in the recruitment process and matching their personalities that match with the culture and identity. This they usually put before job competences, as skills training will be a lot easier than personality changing. As it is a proven fact that if a person really fits in with the team, they can usually be trained in any skill they lack, unlike otherwise.

December 10, 2008

Achieving Short Term Wins

Real transformation always take time to happen in an organization. Usually the complex efforts to change the strategies or business restructuring losing momentum if there are no short term goals to meet in the organization.

Many people (the working staff) of the organization will normally do not look at the higher aims and don’t go for long term benefits unless they see and meet some short successes in their way. Without short term wins, usually too many employees give up or join the resistance in the change process.

Some leaders/entrepreneurs mix this short term win with the hopes for short term wins. Hope is a passive but the real short term is an active process. It is the responsibility of an entrepreneur to not assume that good things will happened or become so caught up with a grand vision that they just forget to worry about the short term benefits for the organization.

This is the reason why most people often complain about the force to produce the short term wins but under the right circumstances that kind of pressure can become a useful element which can lead to a successful change(s) in the organization.
Therefore the entrepreneur must remain committed with the efforts to produce the short term wins which can help not only him/her to implement the changes within the organization but can also be useful in clarifying or reviving the transformational vision.