Mike
Carruthers:
The secrets to success may be no secret at all.
James Dale:
Things like the idea that honesty is the most powerful tool
in business. That when you have a problem just acknowledge it,
say so and deal with it frontally. It's absolutely disarming.
James Dale, author
of the book "The
Obvious: All You Need to Know in Business. Period",
says it's important to note that success only comes as a result
of taking action.
How many people
have you met in the world who say, "Oh, I had this idea
and then two years later I saw someone else had done it."
Well, guess what? You should have done it - stop talking about
it and do it!
Another not so
secret, secret to success is that simple is better than complicated.
Somebody came
along and said that suitcases are too heavy. And they looked
at the bellhops who had those carts they piled all your suitcases
on and they had wheels. So, they said, "Hey, what if the
suitcase itself had wheels?" How simple is that solution?
And success,
says James, usually comes as a group effort not from a single
person's heroic deed.
The example I
gave is Apollo 13. It is one of the great examples of heroism
coming without any individual heroes. You've got a spacecraft
stranded millions of miles from earth; you've got these astronauts
who could be the heroes. But in fact they don't know how to
bring it back. You've got guys on the ground who are brilliant
scientists. They're not entirely sure about how to bring it
back. And what they did is they collaborated and they created
a plan that had no single hero but a team of heroes - and they
brought Apollo 13 back to earth safely.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net,
I'm Mike Carruthers, and that's Something You Should Know.
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