One of the biggest problems with running a company is having the chance to think like a Director. If you are busy with everyday work so that you never have the chance to focus on how to grow and develop your business. You will be effectively shooting yourself in the foot. Leading your team to victory does require a clear strategy and understanding of the markets. Less work and more time thinking. It is not what you do it is how you do it. The work will always be there.
We all like winners, We like people that excel at something.
Sports people are a good demonstration of this. Last night I was watching the ladies Wimbledon Tennis. The game I was watching intrigued me due to the amount skill, dedication, pursuit, and always fighting for that last point. Here were two woman quite clearly prepared to do anything to get that ball over the net. People can say that women are less competitive than males but last night at Wimbledon nobody would have believed it.
I do believe that we are competitive. Even are first journey in the womb to fertilise the egg is a big race. (apparently one in a million chance). Like the chick that can not break out of its shell the picture is similar in human survival.
As customers we will choice what we consider to be the best product for our needs. It is competitiveness that drives successful economies forward.
Competitiveness has the following positive traits for business:
A Dynamic Culture
A Positive Atmosphere
Not afraid to make mistakes
Employees keen to develop there skills
There are some down sides to competitiveness when it becomes individually orientated with teams starting to disintegrate as they try to out do each other. I would personally view this as not being competitive but more focusing on the mistakes one makes and general negativity.
We can learn a lot from sport, if we are able to produce outstanding work more times than not we will succeed in growing our business and customer base.
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Jun
There is a great new competition over at Wcx where bloggers can win a hundred dollars and a month of free advertising. All they have to do is to post there best blog on www.workconnexions.com to enter. Work connexions focuses on business development and has become a resource community center of information to grow your business. With high page rank and quality information just posting on the website will increase your Internet presence. Success!
To grow an internet business it is much like any business in the physical world. The more contacts you have the more business you can do. So attending networking events, Keeping in touch with related bodies, companies, and individuals is going to keep your name fresh in their mind. In the online world this is done by the same method. I recommend spending an hour a day, subscribing to sites, posting adverts, having a blog, leaving comments on other peoples blogs. It is also important to build up a relationship with any likeminded people. If you like what they do then send them an email, or leave a comment. As the relationship develops you will be able to do reciprocal links. The name of the game is linking. The more links you have pointing to your website the higher your page rank will be, the more traffic you will get, the more business you will do. This is the most ethical way to increase web presence and fundamentally is what the Work Connexions site does.
If you have leanings to the dark side of the force, he he J you can try SEO’s (Search engine optimization). They will do all of the above but not usually by ethical methods. They will set up a bogus site for example http://eaby.com/ which will automatically have links to their customers and will open up a number of windows. (quite often used on porn sites) when you try to close the windows you end up clicking the site. Google and Alex registers this click as a visit. What Google sees is the higher traffic to the website and thus decides that the website is important and gives it a higher page ranking. It also adds up all the links in its database to decide the sites relevance.( A method that is closely guarded and regular changes) So when someone types in a word related to your site on Google you will appear on the first page of results. The risk is with such techniques is that Google will eventually catch you out and ban your page to the salt mines in Siberia never to be found again. In till you sincerely apologise to Google and promise not to use such techniques again. That’s it in a Nut shell. I hope it makes sense……..
Twitter where you Visit:
Twitter is well established, I do not know the exact stats for its use but I do know that if type in Enschede in Holland a large selection of twitter subscribers appear. For me having lived in quite a few places in the world it nice to be able to hear what is going on in a place that I have lived. More interestingly I have also added people that live in countries where I would like to visit. Japan being top of my list. Funnily enough most the Japanese subscribers tend to want to keep there twitter quiet (no follow) but it is an involving process so we will see what will happen.
I have Just Signed up for my Entre Card to see what it is all about. Inspired by Owen who has just developed a widjet so that you can see the last droppers (visitors). Could this replace blog catalogue and mybloglog who’s traffic to my site has dropped of recently. It seems a very fair system. You gain a credit every time somebody picks up your details by clicking on your Entree Card widget. This is by far the best system yet. The sign up process is very simple and you can get up and running in within 20 minutes. So if you have 20 mins to spare I recommend giving it twirl. I am looking forward to reporting back soon with more in depth thoughts about this. Don’t forget to check out Owen’s widget here.
Today I received from my bank my new password to access my account. Actually in order to read this password, I had to get a coin and scratch the letter to reveal the code, Then I had to put the scratched part on a white background. Hey bingo I could read my security code.
In this day and age it seem we have become totally security conscious without any idea of what we are doing, we just do as we are told. In England the major headline a while back has been a story about how two computer disk that were lost by the Inland Revenue. Everybody was screaming blue murder and presumable it is now the end of world. Every person’s name who is on the disk should have had their ID robbed and some hideous crime committed in their name, yet, six weeks later this has not happen? Why is that? Presumable the data really has got lost.
We have tended to develop a way of thinking that we can hold everybody accountable for everything that happens in our lives. The simple matter of the truth is that most of our civil service organisations are slow, and inefficient, they always have been. The fact that we think we have made them accountable, is pure blindness on our part. What makes each organisation distinct will always remain. You can now choose who you would prefer to use for most parts of your business, except for government. Making government accountable outside the democratic vote is just costing taxpayers millions of pounds with no tangible results. If someone is proven to be incompetent in his or her particular job should they be allowed to remain in their position ?
Should we really allow the general public to sue public body organisations when in reality the very individuals that are suing are not making the public bodies more accountable but costing the tax payer more money?
