Not everyone is a leader, and even fewer are willing to become business growth leaders. Not everyone can take an idea and a group of people and take them to the Promised Land. Growing a business from its basic form and transforming it into a successful business with, dedicated employees, happy raving customers, reliable and flexible suppliers, enormous profits for the owner/s and smooth systems and processes, is only a job for the business growth leader.
We all have great ideas in our mind somewhere floating, ignored, unjustified, scared… Only a few of those ideas by a select few of us ever get to see the light of day and even fewer succeed.
Motivational speakers the world over believe that we can all do it. That we all poses the ability to bring our ideas to life and create spectacular products. Some of us even possess the rarer ability to take other peoples’ ideas and bring them to life.
Then if we all can do this, why do we only have a handful of those we consider great and good at this?
The simple answer is that not all of us are willing to do what it takes.
Fortunately, the good news is, since we all have what it takes to be a business growth leader, then the very few and willing of us just have to learn a few traits.
5 Traits and Attributes of a Business Growth Leader;
1. Leads from the front
This is the hardest position to be in, in any situation. This is because everything good and especially everything BAD, starts with you. Most people are too timid to accept that level of exposure and responsibility.
The Business Growth Leader however knows that without walking in the front, no one else will be willing to follow in that path either. Your employees, partners and other interested parties to the business will expect to see you implement and take blame on the ideas you formulate.
2. Ready and willing to be wrong
Running a business is not always an exact science. Sometimes assumptions will be wrong, expectations will be dashed and everything will fail to work.
A big part of business is experimentation. You have to find out if your idea is right or wrong by applying it. This way, if it right it works and if it wrong it fails. More often than not the first attempt will be wrong.
Steve Jobs failed at Newton 1, Newton 2 but made it at the IPad. The reward of the iPad was so huge that it justified the failure and frustration of all previous attempts.
People are always willing to huddle behind someone who does not mind being wrong because the true measure of leadership is how they handle the aftermath.
3. Cautiously optimistic
It’s easy to be optimistic but not so easy to be cautiously optimistic. Most people don’t understand the difference.
An optimistic leader relies on hope, faith and a gut feeling to guide the decisions he makes. A cautiously optimistic business growth leader relies on hope, faith, gut feeling, a good and able team, a good education on the subject, real world data and an acceptance of consequences of failure or success.
In short, a business growth leader does not leave it to chance alone; he includes preparation.
4. Willing to do the hard work
Delegation is God sent. I rely on it a lot to get most of my work done on time. But it is not a substitute for hard work and responsibility. A business growth leader cannot get away with leaving his duties to others just because they are subordinates.
You must break down the business into individual tasks and responsibilities and take control of all those that directly deal with profits and vision.
Smart delegation is a core virtue of business growth leadership.
5. Grows other peoples potential
The most dangerous number in a business is ONE. A business of one has limited output, limited growth and very limited profits. You must invest in others to get and build a team. This frees up time for other activities other than work.
To grow and get time for family and friends, you cannot be a slave to your business. Business slavery chokes up your creative spirit and strangles the business.
Have a good team that you develop that can take over from you when you have secondary business to conduct or are temporarily unavailable. You can only do this if you invest in educating others.
It’s not impossible to be a business growth leader once you understand the process and expectations. It’s about having a vision learning how to execute it and most importantly taking action.
We are all born great and with great skills and abilities but it’s up to each of us to dig deep and exploit what our specific strengths are.
Business growth leaders have been proven to come from many and varied backgrounds from aristocratic families to the gutter; from all genders; from all races; and from all corners of the world. This alone proves that it’s not about your background: it’s about your mindset.
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