Habits of successful Business Leaders: Do you dream, work towards your dreams, never take no for an answer/?

Success is an attitude not a condition. Successful leaders possess and exhibit certain qualities:

According to Brian Tracey, "All successful people, men and women alike, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose".

So,

    i.  All successful people are big dreamers;

  ii.  They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every

       respect.

 iii.  Then they work every day toward their distant vision.

  A study, commissioned by electronics group, Sony Ericsson, and published in the 27 Jan, 2005 edition of the EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS which  surveyed 254 people in "progressive sectors" of the UK market., revealed the following:

 One fifth of businessmen and women spend around 25 hours per week dreaming up new business concepts, mainly outside the office, according to the a survey. This means eight weeks a year is spent on coming up with bright ideas. 

How do you spend your time?

Daryl R. Gibson, writing on the topic “Dreaming Big Dreams, and Making them Real”, 2003 made some remarkable statements.

"I've never been that good of a dreamer - at least while I'm asleep, but wake me up - and I really start to dream. My most vibrant dreams occur when I'm wide awake, thinking about a challenge; that's when I can actively visualize the answer - and that's when my dreams really come into their own.

Life needs daytime dreamers; in fact our world depends on them.

They have Passion

Every undertaking in life is difficult and you're going to have to put in extra work that you couldn't have predicted. That's where the passionate man has an edge.

Rajesh Jain, an Indian entrepreneur who founded and built IndiaWorld and sold it for USD $115 million, had this to say  about passion:

Passion is what comes from within, it is that fire and energy which can help the entrepreneur surmount even the most difficult of obstacles.

Passion is perhaps the single biggest "differentiator" for an entrepreneur. They like to do the impossible. In fact tell them that it can't be done and you find them trying to get it done. 

They Choose the People they listen to:

Few people recall that the 1990s were lean years for Donald Trump, who was on the verge of personal bankruptcy. As a successful businessman and a celebrity in his own right, naysayers were lining up to watch him fall. Did he? Of course not. Trump buckled his belt, dumped under-performing investments, raised revenues, and put himself back on top. What he didn't do was listen to people who were clamoring to watch him fall.

They have purpose:

If your leadership is not driven by purpose; other forces will drive it in circles:

Keys to a purpose driven leadership:

•    Defining your mission

•    Developing your vision

•    Setting objectives

•    Establishing values

•    Devising strategy

They are thinkers 

Thinking is the ability to use your mind to solve problems and make effective decisions. Successful people are thinkers.

Thinkers are usually involved in the following types of thinking:

Creative Thinking

The use of the mind to generate original ideas - the ability to conceive and develop new and unique ideas aimed at giving the team a competitive advantage.

 

Evolutionary Thinking

The use of the mind to generate new ideas  from other ideas, new solutions from previous ones with the new ones slightly improved over the old ones. Making something a little better here, a little better there gradually makes it something a lot better - even entirely different from the original. 

 

Synthetic Thinking

The ability to combine two or more existing ideas into a third and new idea.

Revolutionary Thinking

Generating ideas that are  completely different  from all existing ones.

 

They have Mentors

Almost all well-known, accomplished and successful people can identify people in their lives who acted as mentors. 

After the thinking process according to Paul Brown, they do the following:
A. Figure out what they really want to do.
B. Take a small step toward that goal.
C. Pause after taking that small step to see what they have learned.
D. Build off that learning and take another small step.
E. Pause after taking that step.
F. Build off what they learned in step two. And then take another small step…