6 GREAT LESSONS FOR THE AMBITIOUS- Derek Williams

<p>It’s 4&colon;15 am here in Seoul&comma; South Korea&period; I decide to take advantage of being jetlagged and go to the roof of my hotel to watch the sunrise&period; Before long I’m gazing on a magnificent view of silence&period; The city is still and the sky is active&period; A moment of clarity comes upon me for the next hour until the sun has fully risen&period; I think of Africa and all her people&comma; her innovators&comma; her dreamers&comma; her business owners&comma; her employees&comma; her ambitions realised&period; As someone who is a business owner on a self-discovery journey&comma; I would like to share with you 6 lessons my business has taught me over the years&period; I hope this will also help you on your journey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1&rpar; <strong>OBJECTIVE&comma; STRATEGY AND TACTIC&colon;<&sol;strong> It’s important to establish what you wish to achieve in the long&comma; medium and short term&period; Set goals&period; An objective is the long term focus of &OpenCurlyQuote;WHAT’ you want the business&sol;yourself to achieve&period; The strategy answers the &OpenCurlyQuote;How’ to achieve this in the medium term&period; The Tactic is the daily execution of the strategy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>2&rpar; <strong>WORK SMART AND STAY FOCUSED&colon;<&sol;strong> Stop competing with the rest of the world&period; Identify a market that you can penetrate and really make a difference&period; It’s by far better to be a head of a donkey than the backside of a lion&period; Once you’ve identified a market for your product&sol;services stay focused on that&period; Too many young people start multiple businesses’ in a short period of time&comma; without patience&period; Trust the method of time&comma; stay focused on one thing at a time to harvest your craft&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>3&rpar; <strong>LEARN and be CURIOUS&semi;<&sol;strong> Your intellectual curiosity is a natural gift from birth&period; It’s important to harness this to your professional career also&period; Learn to question your industry and identify what gaps there are&period; This could result in a great opportunity for yourself&period; Read books to develop and identify with mentors to learn&period; Lastly&comma; chase the experience&comma; salary is a very short term objective it comes and it goes&comma; the experience will stay with you for life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>4&rpar; <strong>CREATE A METHODOLOGY&semi;<&sol;strong> Whether your profession is within sales&comma; services or a product&period; It’s important to document what has worked and what hasn’t&period; A methodology is born from this rigorous process of trial and error&period; A good methodology is a process that’s repeatable&comma; measurable and scalable&period; A great example of this is in the movie &OpenCurlyQuote;Wolf of Wall Street’ where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character creates a sales pitch that he teaches to his team&comma; this yields excellent results for his business&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>5&rpar; <strong>BE MINDFUL&semi; <&sol;strong>Emotional Intelligence has never been more important than now&period; It’s a key attribute that sets apart great leaders vs good leaders&period; A mindful approach is being present and considerate with every interaction&period; Be a giver and provide a platform for others to prosper&period; A great team is the redundancy of individual recognition and the promotion of team achievement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>6&rpar; <strong>YOUR PARTNER&colon;<&sol;strong> Who you marry is the most important decision of your career&period; Your partner will provide incredible support for you to be successful&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;mystorymagazine&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;08&sol;yo-vk1mv862690388&period;jpeg" class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-3645" width&equals;"682" height&equals;"1024"><strong>About Derek &amp&semi; Williams Mining&colon;<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Derek Williams is the Director of Williams Mining&period; With over 8 years’ experience recruiting for the mining industry across Africa&period; He is well-liked and respected by his peers and customers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Founded in 2011&comma; Williams Mining are a leading executive search firm within the African mining sector&period; They have overseen key hires across Africa and focus on creating and improving dynamic teams&comma; that implement real change and add value&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;