A list made up of all the business skills and techniques that have ever been used in the world of business would be a very long list. Because there are literally thousands of business skills used in the execution of business today.
Skills such as writing skills, sales skills, communication skills, leadership skills, presentation skills, people and marketing skills and on and on. Some are minor ones and others are more important. And then there are some that I call Superior skills. These are very high level skills and thus the kind that produce superior incomes.
Planning, organizing, forecasting, coordinating, are all general level skills. High level skills include those things that I first mentioned, writing, sales, communication, leadership, presentation, marketing and especially people skills. These all require advanced human abilities to execute. And as a result, they all have the potential to pay out very high financial returns.
A couple of skills that I’d like to mention at this time are skills that I feel, fall into the superior class. And these two abilities are creativity and boldness. And they are two of the most admired abilities in the field of business and money making, I feel.
In 1980 when a young Bill Gates was asked by the super company IBM if he could provide them with an operating system for their new upcoming computer the IBM PC , he told them that he could, though he did not even have a system. Gates went out and secured a product from someone else adapted it to work in the IBM PC and sold to IBM only the rights to use it. Going on to become the richest man in the world by understanding ahead of all the business minds and computer minds at IBM the future of operating systems.
Here is an example of creativity and boldness. It took a willingness to be daring, creative and confident to do what Gates at age 24 did in that situation. Dealing with IBM, probably the most revered company on the planet at that time. Creativity and boldness pays very large returns, probably the largest of all. Did not Columbus come into possession of a whole “new” world by executing these attributes
The work that Dr. King did is an example of boldness
Business is about money. The main reason for engaging in business is to make money. If an individual is willing to be bold and creative, making money becomes many times easier. And many more ways to make it, come into play.
If you would but stop for a moment and really think about it, you can easily see that. It is because we are not willing to be bold that we are limited in our options to make money. Let’s take a small time business example. How many soccer moms are their out there with dirty mini vans who would happily pay for someone to come to their house and wash, vacuum and tidy it up. I’m sure that there are too many. All that is needed is to offer this service to enough moms and before long there would be too many jobs to take on. And a good price could be easily charged, so that someone could actually make a good income doing this. And it would naturally lead to other services that moms would want done. But most people would never be bold enough to do this, even if they were unemployed and about to lose their home.
If a person is willing to be bold and creative in this way, there are limitless opportunities for making money. And at this very moment, you yourself, can probably think of one.