I've had an interesting experience for the past few weeks and what I have learnt is, if you want to get answers to a proposal, go straight to the decision makers.
Some employees start forming god-complex when you try to get some basic information on how best to get your proposal aporoved. However sometimes, you just realize that it is much easier getting all you need sorted out when you go straight to the top.
Have you been in a similar situation? Let me hear your story.
I saw this post on Quora and couldn't help but share it.
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How can you tell whether a new entrepreneur will make it or not?
“What are you doing, Luigi?” Mario asked.
“I’m starting my e-commerce web store,” Luigi said.
“Tell me about it,” Mario requested with curiosity. “Sounds like a very interesting project. What’s your strategy?”
Luigi got all excited and a little arrogant.
“Well, Mario, I’m going to crush the market with efficiency,” Luigi said.
“Efficiency? That’s your strategy?” asked Mario.
“Nobody will be able to beat me. I’m investing heavily in the best computers and the best software. I’m not cheap like you, Mario!”
“Well, I don’t necessarily call it cheap,” Mario said.
“I’m setting up the fastest servers with the latest e-commerce tools. I’ll be able to process thousands of orders per day! You know how the saying goes, ‘Go big or go home,’ Mario!”
“Interesting strategy,” said Mario respectfully.
“What about you, Mario? What’s your strategy?” Luigi asked while showing off his powerful servers.
“My strategy is more into being the most effective, not necessarily the most efficient,” he said.
“What does that mean?” Luigi asked.
“It means that while you’re focused on speed, I’m focused on direction. Yes, while you may have the ‘fastest’ servers, they’re worthless if they’re not effective.”
Luigi sat quietly for a few moments thinking.
Mario continued, “Efficiency is just one of the multiple variables needed for achieving success in business. Yes, it’s good to go fast, but know that the faster you go in the wrong direction, the faster you will dig your own grave.”
To answer your question, how can you tell whether a new entrepreneur will make it or not?
Most are obsessed in DOING, and not thinking.
In war and in business — “Strategy wins wars.”
All your hard work and resources will be worthless if there’s no market for your product or service.
When starting, do NOT focus on the HOW — focus on the WHO you’re serving.
#bebusinesssmart
~Hector Quintanilla
NIGERIANS ABOUT TO TAKE ALL GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
Guinness World Records made the biggest mistake of their existence by reminding Nigerians that they exist, and now, Nigerians are taking up the challenge to make or break those records for leisure.
Someone from my state again, John Obot , is about to make (or break) the record for the longest time a person ever read aloud. He will be reading 25 novels for 145 hours.
Do you even realize that we're Nigerians? The volume of books we read just to make it through Secondary and tertiary education, the average person overseas hasn't read in their lifetime.
No exaggeration.
GWR is not ready for what's coming. Nigerians alone will own an entire section of your website in just one year.
You're playing with people that casually endanger their lives every day just for the fun of it:
We climb roofs without cables;
we board and alight from moving vehicles every day (even our kids can do this);
we remove items from the fire with our bare hands;
we sit in one spot and down 3 crates of beer between 4 people;
to peel off electrical wiring, we literally chew the wire open;
our kids make local fireworks that go off so loudly, it could be mistaken for teπorist attacks overseas;
we weed 15 acres of farmland manually without gloves;
to siphon fuel into our car or generator tanks, we draw it first into our mouth, ingest a bit to check if it's unleaded petrol, then we let the pipe continue;
some of us have carried the malaria parasite in our bodies for so long, we should now be donating blood samples to the United Nations to test us for immortality. At a point, when the parasite doesn't see any drugs forthcoming, it just hisses and leaves on its own;
to know if rechargeable batteries are still good to use, guess what we do? WE LICK THEM!!! Yes, we taste the charges!
That's the nation you're playing with.
Just wait... We're coming.
#copied
Nwanne Mmadu
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Israel Unya
Well done! 👏
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