Tag: Business Learning

10 Rules To Build A Great Business

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Nothing happens by accident. If you want to move from where you are to where you want to be, you must be willing to do the work.

You must be willing to ‘play by the rules.’ According to Jenny Stilwell, ‘Find someone to build your business with from the start- doing it on your own is hard and lonely.’

‘Know that you can achieve far more with the right people than on your own.’

‘Don’t force yourself to be who you’re not. Bring complementary skills into your team.’

‘Have a goal and understand the levers in your business. You have to hold yourself accountable to deliver on those things.’

‘You have to understand how the pieces come together to create a whole business- it has to resonate with your customers.’

‘Stay true to your values and work incredibly hard. It won’t happen without hard work.’

‘Don’t rush. Understand what you are doing and why.’

‘It’s all about the people. The right people aligned around your company’s culture, with the right attitude, will make the company successful.’

‘Know what you want and how far you want to scale.’

‘As a leader, humility is key as it helps you manage people better: a willingness to listen and respond accordingly is important.’

‘Build relationships. People do business with people.’

Source

Jenny Stilwell (2023). The 7% Club: How to be one of the 7% of businesses that make it beyond $2M in turnover

How To Become A Great Project Manager

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Successful project managers see their primary role as leading the project from living order to geometric order.’

‘The objective of the manager should be to become a practitioner by learning from practice and not by learning about practice.’

‘In a dynamic environment, formulation of objectives must be bound up with action in an interactive and continous process.’

‘To be successful in practicing responsive agility, a project manager must operate within an organizational culture that acknowledges the unavoidability of unexpected events.’

‘Managers who maintain a stationary position may be forced to make complex judgments with incomplete or misleading information.’

‘In order to prevent a major disruption, the project manager must be willing to initiate a change rather than simply respond to events.’

‘Managers in successful projects feel a total personal accountability for results.’

‘Taking initiative while consistently challenging the status quo is one of the key ingredients in developing leadership competence.’

‘Step away from your work for a moment to better understand it, learn from it, and then share what you learned with others.’

‘A world dominated by living order requires moving from a one-size-fits-all paradigm to tailoring the decisions to the context of the specific situation.‘

‘Successful project managers have a hedgehog’s focus on results and fox’s resourcefulness when challenging the status quo is necessary.’

Source

Alexander Laufer, Terry Little, Jeffrey Russell, and Bruce Maas (2018). Becoming a Project Leader: Blending Planning, Agility, Resilience, and Collaboration to Deliver Successful Projects