How To Run A Business

First we need to redefine the meaning of success. Your business will be a success when your people that work for that business are successful. You cannot have one without the other. When you start a business you make a commitment to the people that you hire. They are your challenge. You need to be the best employer that they have ever had. That's something that you need to work on everyday. Make them never regret the day that they came to work for you. Sound simple? Try it, it ain't easy. Stand behind your people. They are trying to do the best job for your business. Realize that mistakes will be made because we are human. It's a learning mistake then. Always be available to your employees. Without them you are nothing. Encourage them to give ideas on what they think would make the business better. Some of them will have some good ideas but you would never know if you didn't talk with them. It's your business to run but be open about what you want to do. Explain why you want to do this and outline your hopes and fears in doing it. They might clue you in to some hopes and fears that you didn't think of. The days of greed must end. Profit is obtainable if you start to share it with your employees. Over the years as I've crossed this great nation of ours, I've spoken many times on how I would run a trucking company since this is what I know. Many drivers have said that they would work for me. Some even have given me their names just in case I do start one. Total strangers that heard my business plan and liked what they heard. My monkey mind get's a workout all the time as the miles go by.