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What Entrepreneur Should Learn From Army

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15 Skills Every Entrepreneur Should Learn From Army

Being Entrepreneur, means to learn and make money for lifetime. In addition, being army people is to be means whatever your condition is you have to make the nation proud all the time.

I have some thoughts related to be Entrepreneurs and Army-people. I noticed that, Army-people and Entrepreneurs have something in common, they both work for Nation.

Entrepreneur works to make Nation stronger from inside negative forces like poverty, inflation, corruption etc. While the Army people works to make Nation Stronger from outside negative consequences.

However, still some invisible skills make Army-people more prideful to their Nation in comparison to Entrepreneurs.

The Entrepreneur who has this ability made their nation, parents, family, and their name prideful. Some of them are Bill Gates, Mark Zukherberg, Warren Buffet, (Late) Steve Jobs, and Robert Kiyosaki etc.

Do you want to know what skills they have and you don't? I can say that you have all those skills, but you didn't use it in right way in Entrepreneurship.

Let get started.

Contents at a Glance

1. Self-Discipline
2. Practice Until Get Perfect
3. Ever Never Give-Up
4. Winning Is Everything
5. Follow The Rules And Regulation
6. Focus On Only One Target At One Momen...

1. Self-Discipline

Self-Discipline is the first and the essential skill in the army. Many Successful Entrepreneurs have this skill from the childhood, but still there are some new entrepreneurs think that Self-Discipline is for children. Nevertheless, I know that this is essential skill because I have fail in Business, Writing and in my profession three times because I was thinking the same like new entrepreneurs.

2. Practice Until Get Perfect

Thank god, that I have this skill. Nevertheless, as I said Army peoples are expert in practicing until they get perfect, because they know that during the wartime, they didn't have a time to learn on the spot. That is why they prepare themselves for every positive or negative circumstance.

3. Ever Never Give-Up

Armies People believe in either do or die, but never give up. I think you and me as an Entrepreneur should learn this that it is better to die rather than giving up on any condition.

4. Winning Is Everything

But Don't Forget The Rules

Yes, if you can't win you cannot define who you are, and what your worth is. Nevertheless, here is one thing, that army people don't do anything wrong or beyond the rules for winning. They win from their hard works, patience, and persistence works on their target.

5. Follow The Rules And Regulation

As I said, in #4, they never give up their rules, regulations, or humanity to win. They know they have to win for their country, but besides they care that others are humans. If any enemy enters in their border without any weapon, they will not kill him until he attacks on them.

6. Focus On Only One Target At One Moment

If you are sharpshooter than focus on one, you have one rifle. In addition, you can have finish many target, you cannot focus on all of them will one rifle. You have to focus on one by one to finish all of them.

7. Its Never About Money It Is About Reputation

They believe that working for money is devil's job. We work for spirit and patriotism. Many Successful Entrepreneurs has revise the line that they don't work for money, they work because to make their place in the planet.

8. Creating New Ideas

Are Better Than Stealing Other Ideas

It is better to make new strategies and ideas to survive rather than trying old ideas to get dump. This will help your mind to be creative every time in problems, and second it will boost your confidence.

9. Always Plan First Before Taking Action

Planning is the most important work, because we entrepreneur don't work for own self. There should be plan A and plan B, because we are not working alone on our project, we have others to survive on us.

10. Always Say Yes To Mission

As point no. 12 specified, that be alert and be ready. Here I want to say Yes to every target and mission, either your last mission completed just a minute ago.

11. Be Ready For Next Mission

Either your mission accomplished just a second ago, and you achieved your target. If you got another chance to prove yourself, then say yes to next mission. Say NO when you don't have an experience or idea about the target to achieve.

12. Never Tell Your Secret Plan To Anyone

Never tell your plans or target until it has been achieved. Never tell your secrets about your work either you are will friends or enemy. They will know themselves, when you will achieve your target.

13. Country First, Army Second, Team Member, And Keep Yourself Last

In any circumstances remember that you are working for your Country first, then for your team members, and at last for yourself.

For Entrepreneur, it is Country First, Clients and Customers Second for Reputation, Team Member Third, and Keep yourself at last Priority

14. Achieving The Dreams

And Dreaming Of Achieving Are Different Works

If you have a dreams then you should start taking action on that, or it will only be the dreams and nothing else. Achieving is the next step of dreaming and it comes through instant and persistent action on an perfect plan.

15. NEVER FORGET ANY OF THESE 14 POINT

Either you are facing negative circumstances in your life, Don't forget what you doing ? and For whom you are fighting for?

So, What do you think

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sybelle Jan 16, 2012 @ 11:07 pm | delete

I understand the reasoning behind number 13. I was in the army and I was a drill sergeant. I had to turn civilians into soldiers in a mere 8 weeks. The imperative: you do as you are told, no questions asked. And what you are told is you are your nations first line of defense. You die for your country. So number 13 is correct in that sense.

However, the biological imperative will not let you get away with negating the demand to conserve the species - that is - survive and procreate. In this case, the individual comes first, then family, then community, then nation.

Put to the test in different circumstances, each individual will react differently according to what they believe. A person might believe the world is better off if they kill themselves, or in the other extreme, that the world would be better off if everyone else dies.

So, why did the cold war end? Because the US bankrupted the Soviet Union. It is a lot more complicated than that. However, you could almost dare say that the capitalist system of free enterprise makes every single one of us a "soldier" fighting for country first (if albeit unknowingly).

OK, I have covered my head for the onslaught....

Good lens. You are heading in the right direction. :)

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mobilemoneybanditreview Jan 11, 2012 @ 3:31 pm | delete

I really enjoyed viewing your lens it was very informative and I agree with you that most entrepreneurs lack discipline, but its a trainable habit like most things in life. If you dedicate yourself and train everyday to accomplish task most stuff becomes easier.

Thanks for making an excellent lens I appreciate it

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romance-network Jan 10, 2012 @ 5:16 am | delete

great lens buddy

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ekogde Jan 8, 2012 @ 2:14 am | delete

I agree with polanyab..

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BSieracki Dec 30, 2011 @ 2:46 pm | delete

good point

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polanyab Dec 29, 2011 @ 10:45 am | delete

Seriosly though, I dont like the 13th advice. 6th is a perfect one but I am able to do it. There are many distractions out there :(