Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
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When you're by yourself, you realize how much pressure you're under and how much work you have to do.
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.
Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.
Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
It's so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren't certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
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