Mark Mikelat is a success expert for small businesses. From his 15+ years of consulting at Fortune 100 banks and major corporations such as Microsoft, Border Books, and IBM, Mark has discovered that people are people first and business leaders second. By implementing basic principles of respect, sincerity, and professionalism, you can grow you success.
He is business college faculty, and an author of multiple books. You can learn more about him at www.BuildingAspirations.com.
You need more stupid ideas. With the proper management of stupid ideas, you can achieve incredible success in the growth of your small business. Stupid ideas are growth enablers. Implementing stupid ideas is a great way to grow your small business.
Just stop and think a moment about all of the things that have a profound impact on how you live your life. Most of the things that provide you significant benefit were once, stupid ideas. Did you drive a car today? Use a computer? Use a cell phone? Pay with a credit card? At some point, these things were all stupid ideas. Why would people need a car, when they had a horse or a computer when they had a calculator or a phone in their pocket, when there was a phone on the wall, or credit cards, when we already had cash?
Your ‘stupid’ idea can provide explosive growth to your small business. At the time of the writing of this book, texting provides 100’s of millions of dollars in revenue to the cellular telecommications industry. Basically, this is typing on a phone: stupid idea. This stupid idea created thousands of jobs and enables and empowers people to communicate more effectively.
How can you evolve your products, services, and ideas in such a way? How can you be revolutionary in thinking about your small business? Stupid ideas can accelerate the success of your business while creating more value to the clients and more profits for your business.
Create more stupid ideas in your business. Stupid ideas are a great way to grow your small business.
Could you use more tips like this to accelerate the growth of your small business? Achievement thinking is a powerful concept that Mark Mikelat, the founder of Building Aspirations uses to coach his small business clients to double or even triple the size of their businesses. You can learn more and take advantage of a free strategic analysis at http://www.BuildingAspirations.com/BusinessSuccess.html. Also, you can view his books on Amazon.com.
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