Sunday, November 29, 2009

HERE IS YOUR MOST IMPORTANT JOB AS A BUSINESS OWNER

THIS IS YOUR ONLY JOB AS AN ENTREPRENEUR
If you are involved in business, the chances are that you will be asked, ‘what it’s all about?’ on a fairly basis, ‘business seems to be a subject that most people have a vague idea about. The idea people have about business is that business is about doing and labouring physically. People don’t understand to any great extent. In many cases, explanation is considerably overcomplicated.

When I and Tade left our highly exalted positions as Associate Editor and Book Consultant respectively to start our Consulting Firm and Business Academy, it seemed we were in business… we had a lot on our hands, making sure that the business becomes highly successful. At first, it seemed simple to tell people that you are now a Business man…. It seemed commonsense.

Later, inevitably, it all got a touch more complicated… we were working out our hearts. Our passion to see that Entrepreneurs live beyond their limits was burning vigorously in our hearts. Business soon became a most complex of problems that we had to deal with. Not surprisingly, I didn’t seem to use too much of the complicated theory in our first ‘businesses’ --- just commonsense.

Then I and Tade met RARE Mentor, a man who created more than 105 businesses. I was very much amazed at the number of World-Class businesses that this man created. He created businesses in China, but couldn’t speak the language of the Chinese people. He created businesses in Australia and Mexico but never lived there. RARE Mentor owned one of the leading hotels in Africa.

When I and Tade encountered RARE Mentor inside the exclusive reception of a bank in Victoria Island, Lagos. We hadn’t the faintest idea that our lives could transform in such a rapid fashion. The difference between the two of us and RARE Mentor was that we were labouring hard while RARE Mentor never worked in his businesses. We had so much work on our hands with just one company, while RARE Mentor had no physical wok to do with 105 businesses.

When we asked him if he was a business man inside that bank’s reception, RARE Mentor answered, ‘I am a Business Creator not a Business man.’ That startled us. I had no inkling that there was a difference between a Business Man and Business Creator… actually, I never knew there was anything called a Business Creator.

Then Tade asked RARE Mentor, ‘what do you mean?’
Smiling, RARE Mentor replied, ‘A business man must do the work in his business for it to grow successfully.’ Then he paused to catch his breath, continuing, he said, ‘A Business Creator’s job is to create businesses, he doesn’t have to work in the business for it to be successful.’

In our later conversation with RARE Mentor, he stressed that Entrepreneurship is not about doing but about creating. Creating is the Entrepreneur’s art not doing. ‘The job of Entrepreneur,’ RARE Mentor said, ‘is to create the results, but the job of your team is to get the results that you have created.’

The unpleasant life of most Entrepreneurs is that they are stucked in between creating and doing and according to RARE Mentor, you can’t be perfect trying those two together. A true Entrepreneur must know the difference between creating and doing.

At a time when the gospel of Be Your Own Boss and Do Your Own Thing is prevalent, only Entrepreneurs who se their jobs as creators would reap the prosperous reward of Entrepreneurship.

I and Tade have been lucky enough to meet with RARE Mentor, who showed us the Language of Entrepreneurs Freedom. He thoughts on Business and Entrepreneurship have had strange impact on our thinking and the results it has produced. I and Tade would had been trying hard, taking chances with our lives and using our energy to achieve results. Many people have helped us too and we are gratitude to them for their help. I doubt I would have gained much knowledge and wisdom if we had not met RARE Mentor.

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Chudi Onyemeri lrc.
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