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1. Reinvent Your Vision

As your business changes, so must your vision and dream of where you want it to go. You must always challenge yourself and your employees. Let your employees and customers help shape your vision.
 

2. Find Success with Persistency

Go for zero defects. Always ask questions about why deviations from excellence occur and how they can be prevented. Look at problems as opportunities to learn. Never be satisfied with the status quo.
 

3. Surrender Sovereignty

Hire management and get back to having fun at being an entrepreneur. It is impossible to continue doing everything yourself. Empower people and adapt your management style as your company grows.
 

4. Become Your Competitors’ Worst Nightmare

Create new standards for customer satisfaction. Make satisfaction synonymous with your company name. Create a customer-oriented system of values so employees will do the right thing
 

5. Nurture the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Hire people who share your values and passions. Always maintain the drive that started you in the first place. Encourage this same creative thinking in your employees and reward them for excellence.
 

6. Use Teamwork

Encourage teamwork so that it filters through the company’s employees and creates an appreciation for each other’s roles. See that everyone is working in the same direction and use teams to build respect.

Most recent revision August 29, 2007