If you want a year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of
prosperity, grow trees.
If you want a hundred years of prosperity, grow men
-- Chinese Proverb
At times, it may seem I'm not very involved with the various businesses that I own. I'm not what some would call an "owner-operator" in most cases.
I believe my work isn't specifically the technical or process-oriented tasks involved in running a company. My role is to find good men or women to build my companies, and then build them.
The only way to grow people is to:
1. Allow them autonomy and some freedom to make decisions,
2. Ask more questions, to pull out, rather than dictate and push down orders,
3. Recognize in them the goodness that is inherit in all people,
4. Recognize in them the specific talents and abilities that they alone bring to the enterprise.
And I love them, not just because they help build the companies I own, but because I'm truly vested in and investing into their development and personal growth.
In most situations, if you're investing into someone or something, it's because you believe in the prospects.
I believe in my people, and so I invest in them by empowering them to find the solutions to the problems they'll invariably face as operators of a company.
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oblem,
craft a solution and sell that solution to others. As an interesting
side note, it’s a common misconception that the word crisis and
opportunity mean the same thing in the ancient Chinese language. This
misconception initially gained momentum when John F. Kennedy incorrectly
cited it in a sp - See more at:
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oblem,
craft a solution and sell that solution to others. As an interesting
side note, it’s a common misconception that the word crisis and
opportunity mean the same thing in the ancient Chinese language. This
misconception initially gained momentum when John F. Kennedy incorrectly
cited it in a sp - See more at:
http://juniorbiz.com/40-chinese-proverbs-for-entrepreneurship#sthash.NYz8y1xq.dpuf
oblem,
craft a solution and sell that solution to others. As an interesting
side note, it’s a common misconception that the word crisis and
opportunity mean the same thing in the ancient Chinese language. This
misconception initially gained momentum when John F. Kennedy incorrectly
cited it in a sp - See more at:
http://juniorbiz.com/40-chinese-proverbs-for-entrepreneurship#sthash.NYz8y1xq.dpuf
oblem,
craft a solution and sell that solution to others. As an interesting
side note, it’s a common misconception that the word crisis and
opportunity mean the same thing in the ancient Chinese language. This
misconception initially gained momentum when John F. Kennedy incorrectly
cited it in a sp - See more at:
http://juniorbiz.com/40-chinese-proverbs-for-entrepreneurship#sthash.NYz8y1xq.dpuf
oblem,
craft a solution and sell that solution to others. As an interesting
side note, it’s a common misconception that the word crisis and
opportunity mean the same thing in the ancient Chinese language. This
misconception initially gained momentum when John F. Kennedy incorrectly
cited it in a sp - See more at:
http://juniorbiz.com/40-chinese-proverbs-for-entrepreneurship#sthash.NYz8y1xq.dpuf
oblem,
craft a solution and sell that solution to others. As an interesting
side note, it’s a common misconception that the word crisis and
opportunity mean the same thing in the ancient Chinese language. This
misconception initially gained momentum when John F. Kennedy incorrectly
cited it in a sp - See more at:
http://juniorbiz.com/40-chinese-proverbs-for-entrepreneurship#sthash.NYz8y1xq.dpuf
oblem,
craft a solution and sell that solution to others. As an interesting
side note, it’s a common misconception that the word crisis and
opportunity mean the same thing in the ancient Chinese language. This
misconception initially gained momentum when John F. Kennedy incorrectly
cited it in a sp - See more at:
http://juniorbiz.com/40-chinese-proverbs-for-entrepreneurship#sthash.NYz8y1xq.dpuf
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you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of
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“If
you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of
prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity,
grow p - See more at:
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