Martin Schmalenbach » personal development http://www.martinschmalenbach.com/blog Helping Independent Business Owners Navigate Their Way To Success Fri, 28 May 2010 08:48:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Being Responsible Sometimes Means P*ssing People Off. http://www.martinschmalenbach.com/blog/2009/02/17/being-responsible-sometimes-means-pssing-people-off/ http://www.martinschmalenbach.com/blog/2009/02/17/being-responsible-sometimes-means-pssing-people-off/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:02:09 +0000 Martin (Admin) http://www.martinschmalenbach.com/?p=18 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This entry is part of a series, Colin Powell On Leadership»

I recently came across a set of PowerPoint slides that contain a summary of the “18 Lessons Of Leadership” by Colin Powell. Politics and history aside, like him or not, he has some useful, sensible and high impact things to say.

And I couldn’t help but think about how his lessons are relevant to network marketing.

You see, we’re all involved in developing ourselves and our businesses, and many of us are also involved in developing others as well as their businesses – I’m talking here about downlines.

As Colin Powell points out in his first lesson, trying to be liked by everyone is a sign of mediocrity. Do you want to be led by a mediocre leader? You can be sure your downlines don’t!

Mediocrity means avoiding the tough decisions, avoiding confrontation with people who need to be confronted, and avoiding differential rewards based on differential performance (e.g. giving somebody a bigger bonus because they brought in more commission for you…).

Behaving in this way simply angers the most creative and productive people in your downline and around you. In these challenging economic times can you afford to do this?

And it’s not just about downlines – uplines need leading too – and if you’ve read about any of the 12 obstacles I identified in recent research (in my Network Marketing Manifesto) you’ll know that I have a particular focus on poor upline and HQ support – making this situation better is going to need you to take the first step – the upline/HQ are either not aware of the need, capable or willing to do it themselves.

Having said all this, my call to action is not to go out and p*ss people off!

No – it’s to go out and be responsible – not just for the outcomes you produce, but for the outcomes you WANT.

Have a great day!

Cheers

Martin

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]]> http://www.martinschmalenbach.com/blog/2009/02/17/being-responsible-sometimes-means-pssing-people-off/feed/ 1 STOP trying to copy the gurus too much – it will end in tears…! http://www.martinschmalenbach.com/blog/2009/02/14/stop-trying-to-copy-the-gurus-too-much-it-will-end-in-tears/ http://www.martinschmalenbach.com/blog/2009/02/14/stop-trying-to-copy-the-gurus-too-much-it-will-end-in-tears/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:30:00 +0000 Martin (Admin) http://www.martinschmalenbach.com/?p=13 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I’ve been looking at what the gurus do, how they do it, and how many others try to copy them exactly.

And I’m always curious about the claimed 95-97% of people who start out in network marketing, multi level marketing and internet marketing and fail to achieve what they really want.

I’ve been thinking about why this might be – I’ve come up with a number of contributing factors.

Some you will know.

But I bet this is one you don’t – THEY TRY TO COPY THE GURUS TOO CLOSELY!!!

Read the full article here.

With best wishes,

Martin

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Why do I think it’s wonderful?

Because it asks a ton of hi quality questions – questions that will leave you speechless while your head gets to grips with the new possibilities…

So, open your mind and then open Tim’s book – it’s free!

Get it at http://timburns.bigmlmsecrets.com/?mad=29231

Cheers

Martin

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