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How Multi-millionaire Business Owners Make Their Business Work – so They Don’t Have to
Oct 5th

Picture this…
The typical business owner starts a business. Usually it’s just them by themselves or maybe one or two other people.
They do a great job. As the number of staff is small everyone is working together and they are getting things done.
They become successful and it’s time to employ some more people.
A couple more people are employed – but some cracks start to appear.
As the business employs some more staff – the cracks become wider and wider.
Soon the business owner notices that there’s not much money being made by the business.
How Human Behaviour Shapes Successful Business Strategies
Sep 13th

People are fundamentally sheep – isn’t that what we’re always told? Sure, everyone likes to think that they are an individual and that they make individual decisions about what they do and how they choose to act, but the reality is that most of what we do is heavily influenced by the behaviour of others.
This is human behaviour, which is herd-like. As social creatures, what we do or don’t do is often based on what others are doing or not doing. People don’t really think about their actions. In fact, Mark Earls, a leading human behaviour and strategy expert, would argue that very often thinking comes after the fact – people act and process it later. He would also say that there’s not much point in asking people why they do what they do, because they don’t actually know.
Now, the trick is to harness the power of human behaviour to create successful business strategies and to build powerful brands. If you consider the power of crowd mentality in your strategies (which perhaps goes a little against conventional wisdom about how people make choices) you are virtually guaranteed to have a strategy that will succeed. Why? Simply because you will be able to develop strategies that work by understanding peoples’ behaviour. You will understand how new ideas really catch on and are disseminated, and how to create momentum and longevity behind your strategic objectives – whatever these may be.
Considering people are the number one resource in business today, it’s surprising how little we consider the true nature of human beings within the scope of business strategy. A century ago, the main resource of a business was capital which bought the things a business needed to thrive such as land, materials, transport and so forth. Today though, up to 85% of the economy in developed countries is based on human interaction at a variety of levels.
This is why it’s important to understand human behaviour and to shape strategy around it – because people (staff, customers, suppliers and distributers etc) are an essential resource in today’s business world.

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