A Philosophy Of Management - Part 1

There are some basic key ingredients to a successful business. However, everybody can tell you what is needed to make the business no matter whose business it is - successful, more successful, keep from having to close its doors. This principle of being able to tell everyone else what is needed is the same as we find all through society. Everyone can tell the government how to run the country, how to solve the problems of inequity, how to solve poverty, how to solve the educational problem, and all the other problems we are facing. Just go to any coffee shop and listen to the people. Everyone just knows what should be done, that is, as long as they don t really have to power to make the changes they have the solutions.

This holds true in companies and organizations. If you were to ask the managers of all the departments what is needed for the company to become more successful you will have as many suggestions as there are managers. In fact, you ll probably have some managers hedge their bets by making a couple of suggestions. Here are some suggestions all made from within the same organization:


We must reorganize.
We must broaden our market area.
We must have a new facility.
We must have a better location.
We must broaden our product line.

While all these things may be important to the organization involved, none of them address the basic key ingredients of a successful organization. These ingredients apply to corporations, brick and mortar businesses and home businesses.

There are Three Key Ingredients for a successful business:

1. Commitment to work on a goal.

There is almost unlimited power in a commitment to a goal. Most people today have lost the understanding of the power of a commitment. It doesn t take much assessment of society to see the truth of that statement. Society is littered with people who made a commitment but didn t follow through. One day it sounded like a great idea but then came the work or a difficulty or a negative comment, or whatever and out the window went the commitment.

This is very evident in the realm of the home based business. People sign up on the dotted line, send in the money and two days later they no longer want to be a part of it. These people did not understand that they had made a commitment. They have now set themselves up for one failure after another.

The successful home based businesses understand that success comes in helping the people make a firm commitment to do the business. They try to make sure that the people understand there will be a learning curve. They will have some problems to overcome. They will have some discouragements. However, a commitment to a goal the bigger the goal or the why the greater will be the commitment.

It seems that almost everyone would like to make more money. Everyone would like to have a nicer car. Everyone would like to have a better house. Everyone would like to travel more, stay in nicer hotels and eat at nicer restaurants. However, the vast majority of people would only like to have these tings but they are not willing to do what it takes to actually have them. There is no commitment in wanting these things.

We have worked with some in our business opportunity who after a week or so have said, I didn t know it was going to take so much work or time. So, we remind them why they got into the business wanted to stay home with their children, wanted a better lifestyle, wanted to be able to retire, or whatever they had said. The need is still there so now they blame the business for being too hard. Commitment seems to be a disposable commodity in today s society.

You ll have to wait for the next two Key Ingredients to a Successful Business.

By: Jfheller

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I worked in the corporate world for 15 years - oil & gas taxation, payroll account. The next 27 years have been spent in church ministry. Internet Marketing is allowing retirement. www.jamesfheller.com