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The book you hold in your hands is the result of nearly fifteen years as a leading trainer in many of the businesses listed on the Fortune 500, including Microsoft, GE, Nike, FedEx and IBM, as well as the American Red Cross of the Young Presidents Organization.
Through its pages and following the custom of storyteller, the main character of this lesson Blake Davis, with the help of his mentor Tommy Flinn, learn the teachings transmitted by four scholars: Anna, a waitress in a large and luxurious hotel, Ty Boyd Former ski champion snow and currently owns a sporting goods store, Jackson Chan, a gardener who was a successful businessman and Jet Brisley, famous massage therapist in New York.
Apart from the fable, Sharma used acronyms, mnemonic technique to form a word consisting of the initials of others. Thus we can easily remember the lessons of these scholars, to become a true leader.
In order to give a clear and faithful to this book, and thanks to the license that the author gives us to spread his ideas, I will be their protagonists to tell their experiences.
Tommy, thou Lake’s mentor why we can all be leaders?
- To be successful everyone must consider himself the team leader, and you do not need an official, only the desire to be involved and the commitment to leave a positive mark. Mother Teresa said it well, if everyone swept through the door of his home, the world would be cleaner.
- That is, how to be a leader you do not need a position of importance within a company?
- Right, the leadership has nothing to do with the material advantages. Leadership is about excellence in your work and your behavior. It is your job to perform superbly in the place where you are. To stimulate each of the people you work and you attend FREE-LIDER is a secret key, yet deeply forgotten, it does not take a position to lead.
- Blake, what are the main lessons that have given the four wise men?
- First let me thank you for giving us this opportunity. Second, the lessons can be summarized in four principles.
- One for every wise?
- Yes, one for each scholar. 1) It does not take a charge to be a leader, 2) The turbulent times create great leaders, 3) The deeper your relationships, the stronger your leadership and 4) to be a leader, you first have to be a great person.
- Very interesting, Anna, as I understand each of the four sages used an acronym to remember the twenty rules Blake taught her to be a leader without charge.
- If, for example, the acronym Picture, English, where I will remind you of the importance of innovation. The M is the master in your work.
- Anna, sorry to interrupt you, but much is that I spend time to become a true master
- Several studies have confirmed that to achieve mastery have to spend ten thousand hours.
- As I read elsewhere, this is equivalent to ten years of training.
If you think you can generate more revenue remained the same, without learning, without improving, it is because you want to generate more revenue by exchanging your time for money. You obtando for a linear income, that is, if you charge x € / hour, more hours worked, more money. But that has you trapped in the “rat race” must continue to work at the same pace if you want to continue charging the same.
But if you really want to earn residual income, income scalable, one of the things you should do is improve your skills.
When a worker or an entrepreneur aims to generate more revenue in a scalable manner, you will need to develop certain skills that will bring you to influential people in your niche market, which will ease when promoted, to make presentations , to become known on the internet, etc.
If you really want to increase your income, you also increase your abilities, your skills and talent to develop a truly scalable business.
Why should I develop my business skills?
Because if you develop certain skills, be able to do things that seemed impossible and I will suggest challenges seemed unattainable. And if you want to develop a business that generates income scale, these skills will allow you to add value to the market, customers or partners to generate much needed revenue for real.
Okay, so you see what I mean is achieving seemingly unattainable challenges through the development of certain skills, I would like you to see the video below. You can see how something that seems impossible to do, the trapeze artist Henri Rochatin makes this possible through continuous practice for 60 years of his life.